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ACCEPTED MASONS. 



MANUAL 



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ARRANGED TO CORRESPOND WITH THE RITUAL OP THE 



SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE 33D DEGREE 



NORTHERN MASONIC JURISDICTION OF 
THE UNITED STATES; 



TOGETHER WITH THE 



REVISED CONSTITUTIONS OE THE ORDER. 



WILL. M. V OUNNINGHAM, M.A., K.\T.\, 

Sov. \Gr. -.Ins. -.Gen'l. -.33°. 



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SUPREME COUNCIL 

OF 

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OFFICE OF THE 



Most Puissant Sov. Grand Commander, 

NORTHERN JURISDICTION, U.S.A. 



HEALTH, STABILITY, POWER. 

Cambridge, Ohio, 1863. 

I have examined the manuscripts of the Manual of the A.\ 
and A. •. Rite, compiled by Bro. W. M. Cunningham, and find 
that the same conforms to the ritual as adopted by the Supreme 
Grand Council of the N.-. M.\ J.-, of the United States. 

The additions made to the Ritual, by Chants, Music, etc., 
will give increased interest to the working of the degrees. 

K. H. Van Rensselaer, 33°, 
M.-. P.-. Sov.-. Gd.-. Com.-. Sup.-. C-. N.-. J.-., U.S:A. 



PREFACE. 



The design of the compiler in presenting to the 
Masonic Fraternity another addition to the already 
extensive list of Monitors, was not for the purpose 
of presenting new views, or of making a book, 
but an endeavor to supply the want of a Manual, 
which should strictly conform to, and be better 
adapted for, the requirements of the ritual of the 
Supreme Grand Council 33d of the Ancient and 
Accepted Rite for the Northern Masonic Jurisdic- 
tion of the United States; conceiving it to be his 
duty not to attempt to reconcile differences, or 
present his own theories, but to faithfully follow 
the text as far as consistent with the theory of the 
degrees. Where it has been found necessary to 
introduce new lessons and to make changes in the 
language of the ritual, the original ideas have been 
carefully retained. In preparing this waif in Ma- 
sonic literature, the editor desires to express his 

grateful acknowledgments for the mature counsel 

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8 PREFACE. 

of 111. Bro. Major K. H. Van Rensselaer, M.\ 
P.*. Sov. Gr. Commander of the Sup. Gr. Council 
33d N.\ M.\ J.-, of the United States, and for the 
use of his many valuable MSS. ; also to 111. Bros. 
Win. S. Gardner, Hon. C. Levi Woodbury, and 
Nath. B. Shurtleff. 

He would also acknowledge his indebtedness to 
the following works, from which he has derived 
valuable assistance, viz.: "The Orations and His- 
torical Inquiries," of the 111. Bro. Frederick 
Dalcho, with MSS. Notes of 111. Br. J. J. J. 
Gourgas; "Free Masons' Monthly Magazine," by 
111. Bro C. W. Moore; "Monitor of the A.-, and 
A.*. Rite," by 111. Bro. E. T. Carson; the Masonic 
works of 111. Bro. A. G. Mackey; "Couleur 
Symbolique," de M. Portal; "P. Cyclopaedia;" 
"Lodge's Josephus," folio edition of 1640; "Ele- 
ments of Heraldry;" "Symbolis Heroicis," 4to 
edition, 1634; "Canons and Decrees of the Coun- 
cil of Trent;" "The History of the Knights Tem- 
plars," by Charles G. Addison; Michaud's "His- 
tory of the Crusades," &c. &c. 

Newark, 0., 1864. W. M. C. 

NOTE TO THIRD EDITION. 

The author desires to make his acknowledgments to 111. Bro. Na- 
thaniel B. Shurtleff, of Boston, Mass., for the Calendar for the Hebrew 
years 5622-5660, appended to this edition. 

Newark, 0., 1867. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Secret Master 13 

Perfect Master 23 

Intimate Secretary 29 

Provost and Judge 33 

Intendant of the Building 37 

Elect of Nine 41 

Master Elect of Fifteen 45 

Illustrious Sublime Knight Elected 49 

Grand Master Architect 52 

Knights of the Ninth, or Royal Arch 57 

Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason 67 

Knight of the East, or Sword 91 

Prince of Jerusalem ... t 100 

Knight of the East and West Ill 

Sovereign Prince of Rose-Croix 115 

Grand Pontiff 138 

Grand Master Advitam, or G. \ M.\ of All Symbolic 

Lodges , 143 

Noachite, or Prussian Knight 145 

Prince of Libanus, or, Knight of the Royal Axe 151 

Chief of the Tabernacle 154 

Prince of the Tabernacle 159 

Prince of Mercy, or Scotch Trinitarian 161 

Knight of the Brazen Serpent 165 

Commander of the Temple 167 

Knight of the Sun, or Prince Adept 171 

Patriarch of the Crusades, or Knight of St. Andrew 173 

Elected Knight of Kadosh 179 

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10 CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

Grand Inspector-Inquisitor Commander 190 

Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret 193 

Sovereign Grand Inspector-General 209 

Constitution and History of the Supreme Grand Council 

Thirty-Third 218 

Rules and Regulations for Consistories of S.\ P.*. R.\ 

S.- 236 

Rules and Regulations for Chapters of Rose-Cross H-R-D-M 241 
Rules and Regulations for Councils of Princes of Jeru- 
salem 245 

Rules and Regulations for Grand Lodge of Perfection 249 

Ceremonies and Charges upon Constituting a Grand Lodge 

of Perfection and Installing its Officers 253 

Ceremonies and Charges upon Installing the Officers and 

Constituting a Council of Princes of Jerusalem 266 

Anthem, J. G.Webb 272 

Triumphal Chorus ».. 274 

Calendar Hebrew Year 275 

Appendix. Constitutional Amendments 285 



ORDER OF CONFERRING DEGREES IN THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE. 



FIRST SERIES. 

The Three Degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry as conferred under the Authority 
of the several State Grand Lodges. 



E.\ A.-. F.\ 0/. M.\ M.\ 



SECOND SERIES. 

The Eleven Degrees of Ineffable Masonry conferred in a Grand Lodge of 

Perfection. 



S.\ M.\ P.*. M.\ I.-. S.\ 



I.-, of the B.\ 



K.\ of the N.\ or R.\ A.-. G.\ E.\ P.\ and S.\ M.\ 



THIRD SERIES. 
Historical Degrees conferred in a Council of Princes of Jerusalem. 



K.\ of the E.\ or S.\ 



FOURTH SERIES. 

Philosophical Degrees conferred in a Chapter of Rose-Croix de H.-R.-D.-M. 



K.\ of the E.\ and W.\ S.\ P.'. of Rose-Croix de H.\ 



FIFTH SERIES. 

Chivalric, Historical, and Philosophical Degrees conferred in a Grand Con- 
r of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret. 



G.\ P/. G.\ M.-. of S.\ L.\ P.\ N.\ or C/.of P.-. 



P.*. of L.\ or K.\ of the R.\ A.-. C.\ of the T.\ P.-. of the T.\ 



K.\ of the B.\ S/. P/. of M.\ or S.\ T.\ 



K/. of the S.\ or P/. A.-. I P/. of the C/. or K.\ of St. A.\| E.-.K.-. of K.-. 



G.-. I.-. — I.-. 0.-. S.\ P.-. R.-. 



S.'. G/. I.-. G.-. 

Official and last Grade of the A.', and A.\ S.\ Rite conferred in a Supreme 
Grand Council of S:. G:. I.\ G.'. of the Thirty-Third Degree. 

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ANCIENT ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE. 



THE FOURTH GRADE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED 
RITE, AND THE FIRST DEGREE OF THE INEFFABLE 
SERIES. 

This degree was instituted by King Solomon about 
the time of the completion of the Temple, and represents 
the Selection of Seven Experts to guard the S.\ S.\ and 
Holy Place. 

A Lodge of Secret Masters represents the Holy Place 
or S.\ of Solomon's Temple, — separated from the S.\ 
S.\ by a wall of white marble with but one door, — the 
entrance to which is between four small columns, on 
which are hangings of four colors, white, purple, blue, 
and crimson. At the door are two brazen columns, with 
curtains suspended therefrom. In the E.\ is a large 
circle, enclosing three luminous triangles interlaced, 
forming nine beams, with a blazing star in the centre. 
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16 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE 

Furniture. — The ark of alliance, altar of incense, 
table of show-bread, brazen layer, and golden candle- 
sticks. 

Hangings. — Black, strewed with tears, — the furni- 
ture covered with crape. 

Lights. — 9x9 (81)> usually represented by 3x3 
(9). 

OFFICERS. 

There are nominally but two officers in the Lodge; but 
it may consist of all the officers of a Lodge of Perfection. 
The Lodge usually consists of the following officers. 

The Master, styled Most Potent, represents King So- 
lomon, and is clothed in royal robes, with a broad blue 
ribbon passing from the right shoulder to the left hip, 
from the end of which is suspended a gold delta. He 
is seated in the E.\, with a sceptre in his hand; before 
him is a triangular altar (or table), on which are placed 
the apron, collar, and jewel, with a crown of laurel and 
olive leaves. 

The second officer, styled Grand Inspector, represents 
Adoniram the son of Abda, who is said to have been the 
first Secret Master. He is seated in the W.\, with a 
sword in his hand, and wears a black robe and cap with 
the collar and jewel of the Grade. The Treasurer, Secre- 
tary, Master of Ceremonies, and Captain of the Guards 
wear the dress, order, and jewel of the Degree. 

CLOTHING. 

Black robe and cap; white gloves. Apron, white, 
with a blue flap ; on the flap a golden eye ; on the apron 
a key with the letter Z upon it. 



SECRET MASTER. 17 

Order, — a white ribbon edged with black, on it a 
black rosette; from the end is suspended the jewel of the 
Grade; an ivory key with the letter Z upon it. 

OPENING. 



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Symbolic age, 3 X 27. 

HOURS OF WORK. 

From the rising of the morning star until the close 
of the day. 

LESSON. 
The Duty of Secrecy and Silence. 



LESSON. 

M.\ P.\ — The Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in 
judgment, and G-od that is holy shall be sanctified in 
righteousness. 

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J.-. W.\ — Woe unto them that call evil good, and good 
evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; 
that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter ! 



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M.'. P.'. — I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, 

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18 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 

high and lifted up, and his train filled the Temple. 
Above it stood the seraphims : each one had six wings: 
with twain he covered his face, with twain he covered 
his feet, and with twain he did fly. 



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G.\ I.\ — And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, 
holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts ! the whole earth is full 
of his glory! 



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J.\ W.\ — And the posts of the Door moved at the 
voice of him that cried ; and the House was filled with 
smoke. 

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M.\ P.\ — Then said I: Woe is me! for I am undone; 
because I am a man of unclean lips, for mine eyes have 
seen the King, the Lord of Hosts, 

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live 
coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs 
from off the altar; and he laid it upon my mouth, and 
said : Lo ! this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity 
is taken away, and thy sin purged. 



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G.\ I.\ — Bless the Lord, O my soul! and all that is 
within me, bless his holy name ! 

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J'- W.\ — Bless the Lord, my soul! and forget not 
all his benefits to the children of meD. 



SECRET MASTER. 19 

Whoso draweth nigh the contemplation of the Inef- 
fable Mysteries, let him put off the shoes of his worldly 
conversations and corrupt affections, for the place whereon 
he standeth is holy ground. May we ever remember to 
keep a watchful eye upon the feet of our affections. 
Before we approach the Temple of the Lord, let us 
seriously consider whether we have taken straight steps 
in the paths of his commandments, and whether our feet 
are set in due order, and cleansed according to the puri- 
fication of the sanctuary. 

Let us wash as it were in the laver of repentance! 
Wash you, and make you clean! Put away the evil of 
your doings, acknowledge your iniquities, and return unto 
the Lord, he will have mercy upon you, and to our 
Elohim, and he will abundantly pardon. 

Let us incite each other to practise virtue and shun 
vice. While our feet are prepared for walking in the 
ways of his commandments, our hands should, in like 
manner, be prepared for working in his service. 

Saith the Father of our Ancient Most Potent Grand 
Master: "I will wash mine hands in innocency, and so 
will I encompass thine altar." May he who beareth the 
keys of David be pleased now to open a door of entrance 
to this our brother. 

My Brother, — You have hitherto only seen the thick 
veil that covers the SL\ S.% of Grod's Holy Temple. Your 
fidelity, zeal, and constancy have gained you the favor I 
am now about to grant you, of showing you our treasures 
and introducing you into the Secret or Holy Place. 

Set a watch, Jehovah, before my mouth ! G-uard 
thou the door of my lips! 



20 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

******** 

Genuine Free Masonry, my brother, is a system of 
morals, — a pure religion. And such was primitive Ma- 
sonry. Ineffable Masonry is practised with an eye to 
the improvement of morals and a reference to those 
sublime truths which constituted the essence of Masonry 
in the earlier ages of the world. 

It rises above all human institutions, and forms a beau- 
tiful auxiliary to the practice of religion. In no place, 
except the Grospel, are the moral and social virtues en- 
forced with such awful decrees and sanctions. 

The Degrees upon which you are now entering are 
called Ineffable, because they treat of the ineffable name 
of the great Jehovah and of His Ineffable Essence. 
******* * 

Free Masonry is an art of great compass. A know- 
ledge of its mysteries is not attained at once, but by 
degrees only. Advances are made only by much in- 
struction and assiduous application. Each step is pro- 
gressive, and opens new light and information. Accord- 
ing to the progress we make, we limit or extend our 
inquiries, and, in proportion to our capacities, attain a 
greater or less degree of perfection. 

Free Masonry is an allegorical system. Every doctrine 
and ceremony has its mystical reference, which is not 
always apparent at first blush. So that, where the un- 
informed and weak mind finds only child's play, the 
thoughtful initiate finds food for the employment of the 
noblest faculties and objects of thought which language 
cannot express. 

The true Mason will not rest satisfied with signs and 
ceremonies, which in themselves are cold and heartless, 



SECRET MASTER. 21 

but will strive to comprehend their mystic meaning. We 
retain and continue to practise them, because we believe 
that signs and symbols work closer into our hearts than 
mere words. 

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CHARGE. 

My Brother, — I receive you as a Secret Master, and 
give you rank among the Levites. * *•-'•* * 

The laurel, the emblem of victory, is to remind you of 
the conquest you are to gain over your passions. The 
olive is the symbol of that peace and union which ought 
to reign among us. With wisdom, strength, and prudence 
may you deserve the favor of an entrance into the Secret 
vault. It will be your own fault if you are not found 
worthy, and do not in due time obtain that favor, where, 
rapt in divine joy, you may contemplate the Pillar of 
Beauty. 

I decorate you, my Brother, * * * * * 
suspended to a white and black ribbon, an emblem of 
innocence, fidelity, and prudence. * * * * 

The white apron and gloves, which I now present you, 
are emblems of purity, and marks of the candor of all 
Secret Masters. 

By the rank you now hold among the Levites, in the 
quality of Secret Master, you have become one of the guar- 
dians of the S.\S.\, and Iplaceyou in the number of Seven. 

The Eye, upon your apron, is to remind you to keep a 
careful eye upon the Sacred Treasures you are set to 
guard, and over the moral conduct of the craft in general. 
Remember, too, that "the eye of the Lord is upon all 
them that fear him and walk in his way/' 



girted Pa^tn. 

THE FIFTH GRADE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED 
RITE. 

TJie ceremonies of this degree were originally established 
as a grateful tribute of respect to the memory of a 
departed worthy Brother. 

The Lodge of Perfect Masters is hung with green ta- 
pestry on eight white columns, four on each side, placed 
at equal distances, to be illuminated with sixteen lights 
(4 X 4) placed at the four cardinal points. 

There are also two pyramids, one in the N.\ and one 
in the S.\ : on the latter, the blazing star; on the former, 
the jewel of a Perfect Master. 

OFFICERS. 

The R.\ W.\ and Respectable Master represents the 
noble Adoniram, the Grand Inspector of K.\ S.\ He 
commanded the workmen of the Temple before H.\ A.-. 
arrived at Jerusalem, and afterwards had the inspection 
of the work at Mount Libanus. He is seated on a 
throne, in the E.\, clothed as a Prince of Jerusalem; 
above him a canopy, and before him a table, covered with 
black strewed with tears. 

There is only one Warden, who represents Stolkyn, 
seated in the West, and styled Grand Inspector. He 
wears a black robe and cap, together with the collar and 
jewel of the Degree. 



24 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.*. RITE. 

The Master of Ceremonies represents Zerbal, Captain 
of King Solomon's Guards. He wears the dress, collar, 
and jewel of the Degree. 

CLOTHING. 
Black robe and cap j white gloves. Apron, — white, with 
a green flap; on the apron is painted or embroidered a 
cubic stone, surrounded by three concentric circles; on 
the stone the letter J, with a sprig of acacia at the bottom. 
Collar, green. Jewel, a gold compass extended to sixty 
degrees. 

LESSON. 
That we should pay due respect to the memory of a 
deceased worthy brother. 

OPENING. 
Hours of work. — Open at four; close at close of day. 
Age, 1 + 7/ 



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" What man liveth, and shall not see death ? Shall he 
deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?" — Ps. 
lxxxix. 48. 

Death regards not those sweet and pleasing inter- 
courses and those improving joys known to us as Free 
Masons. Death summons away many a valued brother 
of the craft in the midst of his days and usefulness. 
We behold his sun at its meridian, and rejoice in its 



PERFECT MASTER. ZO 

splendor; but, alas! it soon sets, and the evening shades 
of existence close around us. 

" As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the 
field, so he nourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, 
and it is not; and the place thereof shall know it no 
more." — Ps. ciii. 15, 16. 

"0 Lord, teach us to number our days, so as to 
apply our hearts unto wisdom. We know that thou wilt 
bring us to death, and to the house appointed for all the 
living. The path of the just is as a shining light, which 
shineth more and more to the perfect day." Teach us, 
Lord, to look forward, then, to brighter scenes, when 
our brethren who have been stricken down by the re- 
lentless hand of Death shall be raised from their prostrate 
state at the word of our Supreme Grand Master, and be 
admitted to the privileges of the Perfect L.\ above. 

" I will ransom them from the hand of the grave : I will 
redeem them from death. death, I will be thy plagues ! 
grave, I will be thy destruction!" — Hosea xiii. 14. 

Our Ancient Brethren, whelm' d in grief, 

Lamented their departed chief ! 

Let us, his pupils, long revere 

A name to memory so dear ! ( * * * ) 

In mystic rites our Lodge displays 
Its sorrows and its fadeless praise : 
Long may the sweet acacia bloom, 
And garlands fresh adorn the tomb ! ( * * * J 

Look East, look West : its splendors fail ! 

The lesser lights grow dim and pale ! 

The glory once reflected here 

Now dawns upon a higher sphere ! .(***) 



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MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE. 



" Blessed is lie whose transgression is forgiven, whose 
sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the 
Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there 
is no guile." — Ps. xxxii. 1, 2. 

" Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, 
while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh 
when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them : 
because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners 
go about the streets ; or ever the silver cord be loosed, 
or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken 
at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern : then 
shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit 
shall return unto God who gave it." 



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The loss of him who sweetly slumbers, 
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May we all, his hope possessing, 
Triumphant leave the Lodge below, 

Crown' d with every earthly blessing, 
Far removed from pain and woe. 

Once, when full of life, he never 
Proved unfaithful to our laws: 

May we, like him, be zealous ever 
To promote the glorious cause. 

To the exalted power Almighty 
Softly breathe an ardent prayer; 

On his sacred mound tread lightly, 
While we wipe the falling tear. 



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THE SIXTH GRADE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. 

The Lodge represents the hall of audience of King 
Solomon's palace, and is hung with black and strewed 
with tears. It is illuminated by 3 X 9 (27) lights. The 
lights are placed in the E.\ ; W.\, and S.\ 

OFFICERS. 

The Most Potent and Illustrious Master, as K.\ S.\, 
clothed in royal robes, a sceptre in his hand, and seated 
before a triangular table; on the table are placed a roll 
of parchment and two cross-swords. 

H.\ K.\ T.\, clothed in royal robes, seated at the 
same table, with a sword in his hand. 

The Grand Inspector seated in the West, with a sword 
in his hand. 

The Grand Treasurer, Grand Secretary, Master of 
Ceremonies, and Captain of the Guards at their respec- 
tive stations, with clothing and decorations of the Grade. 

CLOTHING. 

Black robes and caps. Aprons, — white, lined and 
bordered with red; on the apron a scroll and delta 
embroidered or painted ; in the corners of the triangle 
the letters A.-. P.-. P.-. 

Order, — a red ribbon, with the jewel of the Degree 
suspended from it; jewel, a triangle of gold, with the 
letters A. - . P.-. P.-. engraved on it; gloves, white, bor- 
dered with red. 

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INTIMATE SECRETARY. 31 

LESSOX. 

We should be ever careful nearer to offend a brother 
by prying into his secrets. Eavesdropping is a criminal 
offence. Also, " A soft answer turneth away wrath." 

OPENING. 



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In the Reception of the first two officers only are pre- 
sent, seated in the E.\ 

CHARGE. 

My Brother, — I receive you as an Intimate Secretary, 
on your promise to be as faithful to the Order in which 
you have just now entered as was that distinguished 
man whose place you are to supply. We hope, my Bro- 
ther, that your fidelity will be proof against every trial. I 
also present you with this sword, — an emblem of defence 
against any attack that may be made on your integrity or 
honor as an Intimate Secretary and Mason. 

The scarlet ribbon with which you are invested is to 
remind you of the wounds he received, and the blood 
which he shed in the defence of his integrity. 

The white apron is the emblem of innocence, and the 
badge of a Mason. 

S.\ was under many obligations to H.\ K.\ T.\, who 
lent him his best artists, and a large number of his 
giblims, stone-cutters, and sculptors, and of his setters, 



32 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

layers, and builders. He also gave to K.\ S.\ cedar and 
fir trees from Lebanon, and gold and stone from his quar- 
ries in Tyre, to be used in the construction of the Temple 
at Jerusalem; in return for which S.\ agreed to give him 
twenty thousand measures of wheat, food for his house- 
hold, and twenty measures of pure oil, year by year, and 
also barley, wine, and honey, and, upon the completion 
of the Temple, twenty cities in the land of Galilee; and 
there was peace between S.\ K.\ I.-, and H.\ K.\ T.\, 
and they made a league of friendship together. 

A year elapsed before this was complied with on the 
part of S.\; and when H.\ went to visit his newly 
acquired territory, he found the lands poor, the people 
rude, uncultivated, and of bad morals, and that the 
keeping of it would be attended with more expense than 
profit. He therefore went in person to S.\, to complain 
of the deceit. When arrived, he made his entry through 
the guards in the court, and went hastily to the king's 
apartment. 

The countenance of the K.\ of T.\ was so expressive 
of anger, as he entered, that one of S.-.'s favorites, named 
J.-., perceived it, and, apprehensive of the consequence, 
followed him to the door to listen. H.\ observed him, 
ran and seized upon him, and delivered him into the 
custody of the guards. However, by the intercession 
of S.\ (who represented that J.-, was, of all those about 
the Temple, most attached to him, and that his intentions 
could not have been evil), H.\ agreed to pardon him, 
and, before they parted, renewed their former friendship, 
and concluded a treaty of perpetual alliance, which was 
signed by them, and to which J.-, was Intimate Secretary. 



THE SEVENTH GRADE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED 
RITE. 

The Chapter is hung with red. There are five lights, 
one in the centre, and one in each angle of the Hall. 

The Master, seated in the E.\, under a blue canopy 
adorned with stars, represents Tito Zadoc, Prince of the 
Harodini,* the first Gr.\ W.\ and I.-, of the three hun- 
dred A.-., whose duty it was to draw designs for the 
workmen. He is styled Thrice Illustrious. 

The Grand Inspector or Warden represents Adoniram, 
and is seated in the "West. 

CLOTHING. 

Black robes and caps. Apron, — white, with red trim- 
mings; a pocket in the centre of the apron; below the 
pocket two cross-keys painted or embroidered in gold. 
Collar, — red, from which is suspended the jewel of the 
Degree, a gold key. 

HOURS OF WORK. 

Break of day, eight, two, and seven. 

OPENING. 

rm i 

A A ^ 4 4 44—4 

Age, 4 X 16. 



* The Harodim were the three thousand six hundred chiefs 
of the workmen. 
34 



PROVOST AND JUDGE. 35 

LESSON. 
Justice to all men. 

T. I. — "To do justice and judgment is more accept- 
able to the Lord than a sacrifice." 

G. I. — "Open thy mouth and judge righteously; for 
he that followeth after righteousnesss and mercy; findeth 
life, righteousness ? and honor." 

T. I. — "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall 
be called the children of God." 

G. I. — "Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of 
the wise : so shalt thou incline thine ear to wisdom, and 
apply thine heart to understanding." 

T. I. — "Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and understand- 
ing put forth her voice ? Then say unto wisdom, Thou art 
my sister, and to understanding, Thou art my kinswoman; 
then, when thou goest, thy steps shall be straightened, 
and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble." 



^utitim. 



CHARGE. 

My Brother : — Having full confidence in your ability 
and devotion, I with pleasure constitute you a Provost 
and Judge over the workmen of the Temple. 

It gives me joy, my Brother, thus to recompense your 
zeal and attachment to the institution of Masonry. Well 
assured of your prudence and discretion, we, without 
hesitation, intrust you with our most important secrets; 



36 



MANUAL OF THE A.' 



and we doubt not that you will discharge all your duties 
in this degree as you have done in those you have 
already taken. You have a twofold duty to perform, 
— as a Judge, to decide all matters of difference that may 
arise among your brethren, and as a Provost, to rule over 
the workmen of the Temple. Be impartial, just, and 
merciful. 




gntenfont of tfte §triMto«, m^wttt to %mtl 

THE EIGHTH GRADE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED 
RITE. 

The Lodge or Chapter is decorated with red hangings, 
and illuminated by 3 X 9 (27) lights and 5 additional 
lights in the E.\ 

In the E.\ should be a brilliant transparency, a 
luminous triangle enclosing a circle, having on its cir- 
cumference the letters J. A. I. H. and in the centre the 
letters J. J. J. ; also a blazing star with five beams, in 
the centre the letter J. 

OFFICERS. 

The Most Puissant or Potent Master represents K.\ 
S.-., seated in the E.\ and clothed in royal robes, with 
crown and sceptre. 

The S.\ W.\, styled Grand Inspector, represents Prince 
Tito Zadoc. 

The J.-. W.\ represents Adoniram the son of Abda. 

CLOTHING. 

Black robes and caps. Apron, — white, lined with red, 
and edged with green; in the centre a star with nine 
beams ; below the star a balance in equipoise with a sprig 
of acacia on the top of the fulcrum ; on the flap a tri- 
angle, with the letters B. A. J. in the angles. 

Collar, — a broad red ribbon, from which is suspended 
the jewel of the Degree, a gold triangle, with the letters 



INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING. 39 

B. A. J. placed in the three angles, in the centre the 
letters J. J. J., on the reverse the letter Gr. 

HOURS OF WORK. 
Open at break of day; close at seven in the evening. 

OPENING. 



/J7J3 

Age, 5 + 7 + 15 (27). 



• LESSON. 
We should apply ourselves with zeal and energy to 
whatever work may be allotted us in the Temple, remem- 
bering that the Lord Creator seeth. 

LESSON. 

"I will restore thy judges as at the first; and thy 
counsellors as at the beginning." 

"The light of the righteous shall be established, for 
the Lord giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh under- 
standing and knowledge." 

"Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judg- 
ment, and equity, yea, every good path." 



^mytm. 



" The Lord is in His holy Temple : let all the earth 
keep silence before Him." 



40 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 



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* "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a 
good understanding have all they that do His command- 
ments : His praise endureth forever." 



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"The word of the Lord is right; and all His works 
are done in truth." 



4 4 4 4 

"He loveth righteousness and judgment; the earth is 
full of the goodness of the Lord." 



Mill 
4 4 4 4 4 

"Let thy mercy, Lord! be upon us, according as we 
hope in thee V 9 

******** 

HISTORICAL CHARGE. 

"My Brother, — King Solomon, being anxious to 
carry to the highest degree of perfection the work he 
had begun in Jerusalem, found it necessary, from a cir- 
cumstance with which you are acquainted, to employ 
five chief architects, and gave command over them to 
Tito, Adoniram, and Abda, his father; being well as- 
sured that their zeal and abilities would be exerted to 
the utmost in bringing to perfection so glorious a work. 
In like manner we expect you will do all that lies in 
your power to promote the grand design of Masonry. 



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THE NINTH GRADE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. 

The Chapter represents the audience-chamber of K.\ 
8.-., and is decorated with white and red hangings; the 
red with white flames. There are nine lights, — eight in 
the E.\, and one in the W.\ 

OFFICERS. 

The Master represents K.\ S.\, and is seated in the 
E.\, clothed in royal robes, a sceptre in his hand, and 
is styled Most Potent. There is but one Warden, seated 
in theW.\, armed with a sword, who represents Stolkyn, 
and is styled Grand Inspector. 

A Treasurer, Secretary, Master of Ceremonies, and Cap- 
tain of the Guards : the latter represents Zerbal. 
CLOTHING. 

The oflicers and brethren must be dressed in black 
robes and caps with their hats flapped. 

Order. — a broad black ribbon worn from the left 
shoulder to the right hip. on the lower part of which 
are nine red roses, four on each side and one at the 
bottom, to which is suspended a poniard, the jewel of 
the grade. The aprons are white, lined with black, 
flecked with blood; on the flap a bloody arm with a 
poniard, and on the area a bloody arm holding by the 
hair a bloody head. 

HOURS OF WORK. 
From break of day till evening. 

42 



ELECT OF NINE. 43 

OPENING. 

JJJJJJJJ-J 

Age, 8 + 1. 

LESSON. 

That we should be careful how we suffer ourselves to 
be led away by an excess of zeal, even in a good cause, 
to execute on an individual the vengeance due for the 
violation of divine or human laws. 



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HISTORY. 

After the * * * * , the perpetrators 
of that crime having made their escape from the T.\, an 
assembly of Masters and Intendants of the Building, with 
K.\ S.\ at their head, was convened for the purpose of 
consulting as to the best means to be adopted for the dis- 
covery and apprehension of the traitors. During their 
deliberations they were interrupted by the entrance of a 
stranger, who demanded to speak to S.\ in private. Upon 
being admitted, he acquainted S.\ that he had, by the 
aid of a dog, discovered an individual concealed in a 
cave near the coast of Joppa, who answered the descrip- 
tion given of one of the traitors who had escaped from 
the T.\; and he offered to conduct those whom K.\ S.\ 
should select to the place of his concealment. 

This being communicated to the brethren, one and all 
requested to be partakers in the vengeance due to the 



44 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

villain. S.\ checked their ardor, declaring that only 
nine should undertake the task, and, to avoid giving 
any offence, ordered all their names to be put into an 
urn, and that the first nine that should be drawn should 
be the persons to accompany the stranger. 

At break of day, J.-., S.\, and seven others, conducted 
by the stranger, travelled onward through a dreary 
country. On the way, J.-, found means to learn from 
the stranger that the villain they were in quest of had 
hidden himself in a cavern not far from the place where 
they then were : he soon found the cavern, and entered 
it alone, where, by the light of the lamp, he discovered 
the villain asleep, with a poniard at his feet. Inflamed 
at the sight, and actuated by an impatient zeal, he imme- 
diately seized the poniard and stabbed him, first in the 
head and then in the heart. He had only time to cry, 
Vengeance is taken! and expired. When the other eight 
arrived and had refreshed themselves at the spring, J.-. 
severed the head from the body, and, taking it in one 
hand and his poniard in the other, he, with his brethren, 
returned to Jerusalem. 8.*. was at first very much 
offended that J.-, had put it out of his power to take 
vengeance himself, in presence of the rest of the work- 
men, as a warning to them to be faithful to their trust; 
but, by proper intercession, he became reconciled. 

J.-, became highly favored of Solomon, who conferred 
upon him and his eight companions the title of Elect 
of Nine. 



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THE TENTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED 
RITE. 

The Chapter is held in the audience-chamber of K.\ 
S.\, and is decorated with white and red hangings. It 
is lighted by 3 X 5 (15) lights, arranged E.\, W.\, and 
S.-. 

OFFICERS. 

The Most Potent Master represents K.\ S.\, seated 
in the E.\, clothed in royal robes. The Grand Inspector 
represents Stolkyn, and is seated in the W.\, armed with 
a sword. The Junior Warden is styled Introductory 
and is seated in the S.\ 

The other officers as in the preceding grade. 

CLOTHING. 

The officers and brethren are dressed in black robes 
and flapped hats. Apron, — white, lined with black; a 
representation of the Temple of S.\, with pinnacles or 
towers painted on it; on the flap three spikes. 

Order, — a black ribbon, worn from the left shoulder 
to the right hip; where it crosses the breast, three spikes 
are painted or embroidered. Jewel, a poniard, worn sus- 
pended at the bottom of the order. 

HOURS OF WORK. 
Five in the morning till six in the evening. 

* Carson. 



MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN. 47 

OPENING. 



I i i i i 1 j I I I I I J J I 

LESSON. 
That the unerring eye of Justice will discover the 
guilty, and they will suffer the punishment their crimes 
deserve. 



HISTORY 

About six months after the execution of the traitor 
mentioned in the preceding degree of Elected Knights, 
Bengabee, an intendant of Solomon, in the country of 
Cheth, which was tributary to him, caused diligent in- 
quiry to be made if any person had lately taken shelter 
in those parts who might be supposed to have fled from 
Jerusalem. He published at the same time a particular 
description of all those traitors who had made their 
escape. Shortly after, he received information that seve- 
ral persons answering his description had lately arrived 
there, and, believing themselves perfectly secure, had 
begun to work in the quarries of Bendaca. 

As soon as Solomon was made acquainted with this 
circumstance, he wrote to Ma-a-cha, King of Cheth, to 
assist in apprehending them, and to cause them to be 
delivered to persons whom he should appoint to secure 
them, and have them brought to Jerusalem, to receive 
the punishment due to their crimes. 



48 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE. 

Solomon then selected fifteen Masters, in whom he 
could place the highest confidence, and among whom 
were those w^o had been in the cavern, and sent them 
in quest of the villains, and gave them an escort of 
troops. Five days were spent in the search, when Zerbal, 
who bore Solomon's letter to Ma-a-cha and Eliham, dis- 
covered them cutting stone in the quarries : they imme- 
diately seized them, and bound them in chains. When 
they arrived at Jerusalem, they were imprisoned in the 
tower of Achizar, and the next morning a punishment 
was inflicted on them adequate to their crimes. 



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THE ELEVENTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE. 

The Chapter is held in a room representing an ante- 
chamber in K.\ S.-.'s palace. It is decorated with white 
and red hangings, and lighted by twelve lights, placed 
near the A.-. 

OFFICERS. 

The Most Potent Master represents K.\ S.-., seated 
in the E.\, clothed as in the preceding grade. 

The other officers are the same as in a Chapter of 
Elect of Nine. 

CLOTHING. 

Black robes with flapped hats. Apron, — red, trimmed 
with black; on it a flaming heart. 

Order, — a black ribbon, worn from the left shoulder 
to the right hip; where it crosses the breast, a flaming 
heart, and at the bottom is suspended the jewel of the 
Grade, — a poniard, representing the sword of justice. 

HOURS OF WORK. 

From twelve till dawn. 

OPENING. 

I I i i I I i I i I I I 
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ILLUSTRIOUS SUBLIME KNIGHT ELECTED. 51 

LESSON. 
That the true and faithful Brother will sooner or later 
receive his just reward. 



HISTORICAL CHARGE. 

My Brother, — K.\ S.\, being anxious to reward the 
Masters Elect of Fifteen for their zeal and devotion, and 
for the very valuable services they had rendered him 
in the erection of the Temple, and for their activity and 
energy in the apprehension of * * * and * * *, 
and also to make room by their advancement for the 
promotion of other brethren whom he wished to reward 
with the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen, he selected 
twelve of the most worthy and talented from among 
the Masters Elect of Fifteen, and gave them power 
to form and constitute a Chapter of Sublime Knights 
Elected. To them he gave command over the Twelve 
Tribes of the Children of Israel. He expressed a par- 
ticular regard for them and for their illustrious and 
sublime Order, and showed them many precious things 
in the Tabernacle. On them devolved the great and holy 
duty of completing to perfection the work their G-rand 
Master had commenced. * * * By partaking of the 
mystic * * , they bound themselves to walk in his 
footsteps and carry on the great work to perfection, or, 
like him, taste the bitter cup of death * * * * * 

It was the custom of the Illustrious Knights to give 
an account daily to K.\ S.\ of the workmen and of the 
work done in their respective tribes, and receive their pay. 






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THE TWELFTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE. 

Assemblies of G-rand Master Architects are called 
Chapters. The Chapter is hung with white hangings, 
with red names, by which is signified that purity of 
heart and zeal which should characterize every Gv. M.\ 
A.-. It must have in it a delineation of the five orders 
of Architecture, and is illuminated by a representation 
of the North Star in the N.\, and Seven Stars in the E.\, 
which signifies that, as the North Star is a guide to 
mariners, so ought virtue to be the guide of every Gv. 
Mv. A.-. 

OFFICERS. 

The Most Potent, seated in the E.\, and clothed in 
royal robes, represents S.\ The Grand Inspector, seated 
in the West, together with the other officers, are the same 
as in the preceding grade. 

CLOTHING. 

Black robes, with flapped hats. Apron, — of stone 
color; a pocket in the centre, and a star painted or em- 
broidered on the flap. 

Order, — a broad stone-colored silk ribbon, worn from 
the left shoulder to the right hip, with the jewel of the 
degree suspended therefrom. Jewel, a gold medal ; on 
both sides of which should be engraved the five orders 
of Architecture, a case of mathematical instruments, and 
a star. 

5* 53 



54 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.*. RITE. 

HOUR OF OPENING. 
The first instant, the first hour, and the first day of 
the creation of the U.\ The first instant, the first hour, 
the first day, and the first year in which K.\ S.\ com- 
menced the building of the Temple. 

OPENING. 



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LESSON. 
That virtue is as necessary as talents to every Gr.\ 
M.-. A.-. 



%myt\m. 



CHARGE. 

My dear Brother :— We have elevated you to the 
grade you now hold, from a belief and in the expectation 
that you will so apply yourself to the study of Geometry 
and other arts and sciences, to which you are now de- 
voted, as will procure you knowledge sufficient to take 
away the vail from your eyes and enable you to arrive at 
the sublime and mysterious grade of Perfection. 

HISTORY. 

K.\ S.\ established this Degree with a view of forming 
a school of architecture, for the instruction of the brethren 
employed in the building of the Temple, and animating 
them to arrive at perfection in the royal art. 



GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT. 55 

K.\ S.\ was a prince equally famed for his justice, 
wisdom, and foresight : he was, therefore, not only de- 
sirous to reward the faithful and meritorious, but to 
make them more perfect in the art, and better fit and 
prepare' them for an approach to the throne of the S.\ 
G.-. A.-. 0.-. T.-. U-. 

He accordingly, for this purpose, cast his eyes upon the 
Grand Masters of Israel the Sublime Knights Elected, 
as persons properly qualified to assist him in preparing 
for the fulfilment of the promise made to Enoch, to 
Moses, and to David, that in the fulness of time God 
would dwell in a fixed Temple, and that his name should 
be there. 

FINAL CHARGE. 

My dear Brother: — By the practice of the many 
valuable lessons you have been taught in the preceding 
Degrees, the study of Geometry, and by making virtue 
your guide through the journey of life, we hope and 
trust that you will be fitted for * * * * , and be 
admitted to the Secret Place, where you may rest 
from your labors, and, with joy unspeakable, contemplate 
the Pillar of Beauty. 

HOUR TO CLOSE. 

The last instant, the last hour, and the last day, in 
which the S.\ G. - . A.-, completed the U.\ The last 
instant, the last hour, the last day, and the last year, in 
which K.\ S.\ completed the T.\ 



Also known as the Royal Arch of Solomon, 

THE THIRTEENTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE. 

A Chapter of Knights of the Ninth, or Royal Arch, 
is held in a room representing the Audience Chamber of. 
K.\ S.\ It is decorated with white and red hangings, 
and lighted by 3 X 3 lights (3 E.-., 3 W.-., and 3 S.\). 

OFFICERS. 

The Most Potent Grand Master represents K.\ S.\, 
seated in the E.\, in a chair of state, under a rich canopy, 
a crown upon his head, and a sceptre in his hand. He 
is dressed in royal robes of yellow, over which he wears 
an ermined vestment of blue satin, reaching to the elbows; 
he also wears the order and jewel of the degree. 

The second officer, representing H.\ K.\ T.\, is seated 
on the left of the M.\ P.-., and wears a purple robe, over 
it a yellow mantle, upon his head a crown, in his hand a 
sword; he also wears the order and jewel of the degree. 

The Senior Warden represents G-.\, is seated in the 
W.\, with a drawn sword in his hand, and is styled 
Grand Inspector. 

The J.-. W.\, seated in the S.\, represents S.\ 
There is also a Treasurer, representing J.-., a Secretary, 
a Master of Ceremonies, and a Captain of the Guards. 

57 



58 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

CLOTHING. 

All the officers (except the first two) and the brethren 
wear black robes and caps, with the apron, collar, and 
jewel of the degree. 

Apron, — purple silk, bordered with white. Order, — 
a broad purple silk ribbon, worn from the left shoulder 
to the right hip, to which is suspended the jewel of the 
degree. Jewel, — a gold triangle, on which is engraved 
the delta of Enoch with rays 

HOURS OF WORK. 
From sunrise to sunset. 

OPENING. 



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4444444*4 



LESSON. 

That difficulties and dangers, however great, should 
not deter the true and faithful brother from progressing 
onward toward perfection. 

M.\ P.-. — "The Lord is great in Zion: let all the 
earth praise him; for his great and terrible name, for it 
is holy." 

G.-. I.-. — "Exalt the Lord our G-od, and worship on 
his holy hill : for the Lord our God is holy." 

J.-. W.-. — "He spake from the cloudy pillar, and from 
the fire; and from the deep cometh forth the riches of 
secret places." 

J/.-. P.\ — "Exalt the Lord our God, for he is holy: 
and his name, for it is from everlasting to everlasting." 

G.\ I.-. — " What is man, that he should magnify him, 
or that he should set his heart upon him?" 



KNIGHTS OF THE NINTH, OR ROYAL ARCH. 59 

J.-. W.\ — "We are but of yesterday, and know 
nothing ; our days are but a shadow, they flee, and we 
know not." 

M.\ P.-. — "Canst thou by searching find out God? 
Canst thou find the Almighty to ^ perfection ? He is 
high as heaven ; what canst thou do ? He is deeper than 
hell; what canst thou know?" 

G.\ I.-. — "His eyes are upon the ways of man, and 
he seeth all his doings." 

3I.\ P.\ — "0 God, let thy work appear unto thy ser- 
vants, and thy glory unto the children of men." 

G.-. I.\ — "Let the beauty of the Lord be upon us, 
and establish the work of our hands : Lord, establish 
thou it!" 

J.-. W.'. — "I will sing unto the Lord as long as I 
live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my 
being." 

G.\ I.-. — "My meditations of him shall be sweet; I 
will be glad in the Lord." 

Mr. P.\ — " Mark the perfect man, and behold the 
upright; for the end of that man is peace. For thus 
saith the Lord, Mine eyes shall be upon the perfect 
man. The perfect of the land shall dwell with me. 
They shall walk in my name, and serve me forever." * * * 
Let us give thanks unto the Lord, who hath given us the 
treasures of darkness, and the hidden riches of secret 
places. 

PRAYER. 

Almighty and Sovereign Architect of Heaven and 
Earth, who by thy divine power dost ultimately search 
the most secret recesses of thought, purify our hearts by 



60 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.*. RITE. 

the sacred fire of thy love ; guide us by thine unerring 
hand in the path of virtue, and cast out of thy adorable 
sanctuary all impiety and perverseness; we beseech thee 
that our thoughts may be engaged in the grand work of 
our perfection, which, when attained, will be an ample 
reward for our labor; let peace and charity link us to- 
gether in a pleasing union, and may this Chapter exhibit 
a faint resemblance of that happiness which the Redeemed 
will enjoy in thy kingdom. Give us a spirit of holy dis- 
crimination, by which we may be able to refuse the evil 
and choose the good, and also that we may not be led 
astray by those who unworthily assume the character of 
the Gr.'. E.\ . Finally, be pleased to grant that all our 
proceedings may tend to thy glory, and our advancement 
in righteousness. Bless us, and prosper our works, 
Lord ! Amen. 



^caption. 



HISTORY. 
My dear Brother : — It is my intention at this time to 
give you a full and more clear account of certain Masonic 
and Historical traditions of our order than you have 
hitherto received. 

"Enoch, the son of Jared, was the sixth son in de- 
scent from Adam, and lived in the fear and love of his 
Maker. * * * * * * * 

" Enoch, being inspired by the Most High, and in 
commemoration of this wonderful vision, built a temple 



KNIGHTS OF THE NINTH, OR ROYAL ARCH. 61 

under ground, at the top of a high mountain, and dedi- 
cated the same to God. Methuselah, the son of Enoch, 
constructed the building without being acquainted with 
his father's motives. 

" This happened in that part of the world which was 
afterwards called the Land of Canaan, and since known 
by the name of the Holy Land. 

"Enoch caused a triangular plate of gold to be made, 
each side of which was a cubit long; he enriched it with 
the most precious stones, and encrusted the plate upon a 
stone of agate of the same form. He then engraved 
upon it the ineffable characters, and placed it on a tri- 
angular pedestal of white marble, which he deposited in 
the deepest arch. 

"When Enoch's temple was completed, he made a 
door of stone, and put a ring of iron therein, by which 
it might be occasionally raised, and placed it over the 
opening of the arch, that the matters enclosed therein 
might be preserved from the universal destruction im- 
pending. And none but Enoch knew of the treasure 
which the arches contained. 

"And, behold, the wickedness of mankind increased 
more, and became grievous in the sight of the Lord, and 
God threatened to destroy the whole world. Enoch, 
perceiving that the knowledge of the arts was likely to 
be lost in the general destruction, and being desirous of 
preserving the principles of the sciences for the posterity 
of those whom God should be pleased to spare, built two 
great pillars on the top of the mountain, the one 
of brass, to withstand water, the other of marble, to 
withstand fire; and he engraved on the marble pillar 
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62 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.-. RITE. 

hieroglyphics, signifying that there was a most precious 
treasure concealed in the arches under ground which 
he had dedicated to God. And he engraved on the pillar 
of brass the principles of the liberal arts, particularly of 



"The flood took place in the year of the world 1656, 
and destroyed most of the superb monuments of antiquity. 
The marble pillar of Enoch fell in the general destruc- 
tion; but, by divine permission, the pillar of brass with- 
stood the water, by which means the ancient state of the 
liberal arts, and particularly Masonry, has been handed 
down to us. 

******** 

" Sacred history particularly informs us of the different 
movements of the Israelites until they became possessed 
of the land of promise, and of the succeeding events 
until the Divine Providence was pleased to give the 
sceptre to David; who, though fully determined to build 
a temple to the Most High, could never begin; that 
honor being reserved for his son. 

" Solomon, being the wisest of princes, had fully in 
remembrance the promise of God, that he would dwell 
in a fixed temple 'made with hands/ and that his name 
should be there. ******* 

" King Solomon accordingly began to build the Temple 
in the fourth year of his reign, agreeably to a plan given 
to him by David, his father, upon the ark of alliance. 

u He chose a spot, for this purpose, the most beautiful 
and healthy in all Jerusalem." 




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CALLED 

tout (&\u\ ^txiui m& gnUim pawn, 

OR, 

GRAND ELECT PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASTER. 

THE FOURTEENTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE, AND THE ELEVENTH AND LAST OP 
THE INEFFABLE GRADES. 

The Lodge of Perfection, or last grade of Ancient 
Masonry, should represent a subterranean vault, painted 
red or decorated with red hangings. In the E.\ the 
P.-. of B.\, the B.\ B.\, and a transparent delta. In 
the W.\ a part of the P.*. of E.\, consisting of pieces 
found among the ancient ruins. 

In addition to the B.\ B.\ and Gr.\ L.\, the Lodge is 
illuminated by3 + 5 + 7-f9 (24) lights, distributed as 
follows : In the E.\ nine (arranged in a triangular form); 
in the W.\, seven; in the S.\, five; and in the N.\, 
three. 

FURNITURE. 

The Holy Bible, square, compasses, and delta, upon 
a white triangular altar, the Altar of Incense, Altar of 
Sacrifice, Ark of the Covenant, table of the Law, brazen 
laver, table of shew-bread, two brazen columns, golden 
candlesticks, golden vase filled with water, golden urn 
filled with oil, golden goblet of wine, gold ring and 
trowel, a silver hod of ointment, the cubical stone, and 
before each of the officers a white triangular altar. 

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68 MANUAL OT THE A.-. AND A.\ RITE. 

An Assembly of G.-. E.-. P.-. A.-. S.\ M.-.s is styled 
a Grand Lodge of Perfection, and consists of twelve 
officers and fifteen members. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers are elected annually (with the exception 
of the H.\ B.\ and G\\ T.\, who are appointed by the 
T.\ P.-. G.\ M.\), on the third day of the month Adar, 
and are as follows : — 

1. The Thrice Potent Grand Master represents K.\ 
S.\, seated in the E.\, clothed in royal robes, as in the 
preceding degree, with the order of the grade, to which 
is suspended the official jewel — a crowned compass with 
a blazing sun in the centre. 

2. The Deputy Grand Master, representing H.\ K.\ 
T.\, seated on the right of the T.\ P.-. G.-. M.\ in the 
E.\; clothed as in the preceding grade, with the addition 
of the order of the degree, to which is suspended an 
official jewel, — a crowned compass with a moon in the 
centre. 

3. The Senior Grand Warden represents A.-., the son 
of A., seated in the west. Jewel, — a gold trowel. 

4. The J.-. G.-. W.\, representing M.\, seated in the 
south. Jewel, — a sword. 

5. The G.\ K.\ of the S.\ represents G.\ ) station, on 
the left of the S.-. G.-. AY.-, in the W.\ Jewel,— an 
ivory key. Duty, — to take charge of the archives of 
the Lodge. 

6. The Grand Treasurer, representing G.\ ; station, 
in the N.\, at the T.\ of S.\ Jewel, — a gold key. 
Duty, — to take charge of the funds of the Lodge. 

7. The Grand Secretary, who represents J.\, seated in 



PERFECTION. 69 

the south, near the A.-, of J.\ Jewel, — a gold pen. 
.Duty, — to keep a record of the proceedings of the Lodge, 
et cetera. 

8. The Grand Orator, representing A.-.; station, in 
the S.\, between the J.-. W.\ and S.\ Jewel, — a scroll. 
Duty, — to make discourses in illustration of the Order, 
to instruct new brethren, and explain to them the myste- 
ries of Ineffable Masonry. 

9. The Gv. M.\ of Ceremonies, who represents S.\, sta- 
tion, in the N.\, between the T.\ and Gv. C.\ Gv. Jewel, 
— a staff. Duty, — to prepare and conduct candidates. 

10. The Grand Captain of the Guards, representing 
Z.\; station, in the N.\, between the Gv. K.\ S.\ and 
Gv. Iff.*. C. - . Jewel, — a spear. Duty, — to station the 
guards and to provide for the accommodation of the 
members and visiting brethren. 

11. The Hospitable Brother, seated in the N.\, between 
the G.\ T.\ and M,\ of C.\ Jewel, — a winged rod 
Duty, — to visit the sick and take charge of the charity 
funds of the Lodge. 

12. The Grand Tyler, stationed at the door of entrance, 
Jewel, — a flaming sword. Duty, — to guard the S.\ V." 

CLOTHIXG. 

Black robes and caps. Apron, — of a triangular form; 
black silk, lined with white and edged with gold, in the 
centre a gold delta, with the I.-. C.\ engraved thereon. 
The girdle of various-colored silk with the combinations 
of 3 + 5 + 7 + 9. 

The Collar worn by the officers, is a broad white, 
watered ribbon; at the bottom a white and red rosette; 
to it is suspended the official jewel. 



70 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.". RITE 

The Collar worn by tjae brethren is a broad flame- 
colored ribbon, with a white and red rosette at the 
bottom, from which the jewel of the grade is suspended. 
Jewel, — a gold-crowned compass, the points extended on 
the segment of a circle to ninety degrees, with a sun in 
the centre. 

HOURS OF WORK. 
From high 12 until low 12. 

OPENING. 



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LESSON. 

T.\ P.-. — "The Lord is in his holy temple: let all 
the earth keep silence before him." 

S.'. G.-. TF.\ — "Lord, who shall stand in thy pre- 
sence ? And who shall abide in thy tabernacle t" 

T.\ P.-. — "He that walketh uprightly, and worketh 
righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart; he 
that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his 
neighbor, but honoreth them that fear the Lord." 

J.\ G.\ W.% — "Who shall ascend into the hill of the 
Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place?" 

T.\ P.\ — "He that hath clean hands and a pure 
heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor 
sworn deceitfully." 

S.\ G. m . TP.\ — " He shall receive blessings from the 
Most High, and righteousness from the God of his sal- 
vation." 



PERFECTION. 71 

J.\ G.\ W.\ — "Lift up your heads, ye gates! and 
be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of 
Glory shall come in !" 

&.: G.: W.\— "Who is the King of Glory?" 

T.-.P.-. — "The Lord, strong and mighty! the Lord 
of Hosts, our Adonai ! He is the King of G-lory." 

J.\ G.\ W. m . — " I will wash my hands in innocency ; 
and so shall I encompass thine altar, Jehovah !" 

S.\ G.\ W.\ — "As for me, I will walk in mine in- 
tegrity : my foot standeth in the even place, and here 
will I bless the Lord forever !" 

T/. P.\ — "Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips 
from speaking guile; depart from evil, and do good; 
speak peace, and pursue it: Thus saith the Lord of 
Hosts, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will 
cause you to dwell in this place forever." 

S.*. G.\ W.\ — "Who can say, I have made my hands 
clean, I am pure from sin ? For there is not a just man 
on the earth that doeth good and sinneth not; no, not 
one." 

T.\ P.-. — "But whoso confesseth his sins, and for- 
saketh them, shall have mercy." 

J.\ G.\ IF".-. — " They shall fear the name of the Lord 
from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun." 

T.\ P.-. — "From the rising of the sun even to the 
going down of the same, my name shall be great among 
the Gentiles. In every place incense shall be offered 
unto my name, and a pure offering ; for my name shall 
be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts." 

&.•. G.-.W.-. — "Sing unto the Lord! Sing praises 
unto his name; extol him that rideth in the heavens by 
his name Jah, and rejoice before him !" 



72 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE. 

J.\ G.\ W.\ — "He discovereth deep things in the 
darkness, and bringeth to light from the shadows of 
death/' 

T.-. P.\ — " Gather together unto him them that have 
made a covenant with him by sacrifice, and offer up to 
him a holy libation with a perfect heart. How excellent 
is thy loving kindness, God ! Therefore the children 
of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. 
Oh, continue thy loving kindness unto them that know 
thy name, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart ; 
for with thee is the fountain of life, and in thy light 
shall we see light, which shineth more and more to the 
perfect day." 

PRAYER, 

Almighty and Supreme Grand Architect of the Uni- 
verse, who by thy divine power dost search and pene- 
trate the most secret recesses of our hearts, draw us 
nearer to thee, we beseech thee, by the sacred fire of 
thy love, and guide us, by thine unerring hand, in the 
path of virtue and holiness, and drive far from us all 
impiety and perverseness. May the * * * settle 
in our minds a true understanding of thine unspeakable 
essence and power; and, Lord! as we preserve the 
memorial of thy great and holy name, so may we pre- 
serve the fear and love of thee, deeply graven upon our 
hearts. "We beseech thee, Lord! that our thoughts, 
words, and actions may be fully engaged in the grand 
work of our perfection, which, when attained, will be an 
ample reward for all our labors. Let peace and charity 
link us together in bonds that may not be broken ; and 
may this Lode;e exhibit a foretaste of that happiness the 



PERFECTION. 73 

redeemed will enjoy in thy kingdom forever. May our 
present -proceeding tend to thy glory, to the welfare of 
our brethren, and to our advancement to perfection. 
Bless us, God our Adonai. and prosper the work of 
our hands; keep us through life, and accept us in death. 
Amen ! 



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FIRST LESSON. 

T.\ P.-. — "The Lord is in his holy temple: his eyes 
behold, his eyelids try the children of men/' 

S.'. £r.\ W.'. — Lord! who shall abide in thy taber- 
nacle?" 

T.\ P.-. — "He that walketh uprightly, and worketh 
righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He 
that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his 
neighbor: in whose eyes a vile person is contemned; 
but he honoreth them that fear the Lord.." 

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74 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 

J.-. G.: W.\ — "He that sweareth to his own hurt, 
and changeth not his oath; who sweareth not by the 
name of God profanely." 

S.'. G.\ W. m . — "What man is he that desireth life, 
and loveth many days, that he may see good?" 

T.\ P.\ — " Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips 
from speaking guile; depart from evil, and do good; 
seek peace, and pursue it. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, 
Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you 
to dwell in this place forever." 

S.: G.\ W.\ — "Who can say, I have made my heart 
clean, I am pure from sin? For there is not a just man 
on the earth that doeth good and sinneth not; no, not 
one." 

T.-. P.\ — "But whoso confesseth his sins and for- 
saketh them, he shall have mercy, saith the Lord of 
Hosts." 

J.\ G.-. IF.-. — "Thus saith the Lord, Heaven is my 
throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the 
house ye have builded unto me? For all these things 
hath mine hands made. But to this man will I look, 
even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that 
trembleth at my word." 

8.: Gr. W..— "They shall fear the name of the 
Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of 
the sun." 

T.-. P.-. — "From the rising of the sun even to the 
going down of the same, my name shall be great among 
the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered 
unto my name, and a pure offering; for my name shall 
be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts." — • 
Ps. xxiv. 



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78 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.*. RITE. 



SECOND LESSON. 

"And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them: 
Hear, * Israel, the statutes and judgments which I 
speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and 
keep and do them. The Lord our God made a covenant 
with us in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant 
with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us 
here alive this day. The Lord talked with you face to 
face in the mount, out of the midst of the fire (I stood 
between the Lord and you at that time, to show you the 
word of the Lord : for ye were afraid, by reason of the 
fire, and went not up into the mount), saying, I am the 
Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of 
Egypt, from the house of bondage. Thou shalt have 
none other gods before me. Thou shalt not make thee 
any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in 
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is 
in the waters beneath the earth. Thou shalt not bow 
down thyself unto them, nor serve them: For I the 
Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities 
of the fathers upon the children unto the third and 
fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing 
mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my 
commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the 
Lord thy God in vain : for the Lord will not hold him 
guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Keep the Sabbath 
day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded 
thee. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work, but 
the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; 
in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor 
thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, 



PERFECTION. 79 

nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the 
stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant 
and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. And 
remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, 
and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence 
through a mighty hand by a stretched-out arm : there- 
fore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the 
Sabbath day. 

" Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy 
God hath commanded thee, that thy days may be pro- 
longed, and that it may go well with thee in the land 
which the Lord thy God hath given thee. 

" Thou shalt not kill. Neither shalt thou commit adul- 
tery. Neither shalt thou steal. Neither shalt thou bear 
false witness against thy neighbor. Neither shalt thou 
desire thy neighbor's wife ; neither shalt thou covet thy 
neighbor's housej his field, or his man-servant, or his 
maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy 
neighbor's. These words the Lord spake unto all your 
assembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, of 
the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice; 
and he added no more: And he wrote them in two tables 
of stone, and delivered them unto me. And it came to 
pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the 
darkness (for the mountain did burn with fire), that ye 
came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and 
your elders. And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God 
hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we 
have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire : we 
have seen this day that God doth talk with man and he 
liveth." — Deut. v. 1-25. 



80 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 

FIRST CHARGE. 

My Brother, — Before this altar of a broken and a con- 
trite spirit, with the fire of holy zeal, drag, by confession, 
your sins, and mortify them by hatred thereof. Offer 
them up, in a renewed consecration, as a sacrifice accept- 
able and well pleasing unto God. 

Let us all, my Brethren, offer up to Him, on the altar 
of our hearts, a sacrifice of humility and praise, with the 
fire of holy zeal and charity. Let us offer up sacrifices 
of joy in the tabernacle of the Lord, and sacrifice the 
sacrifice of thanksgiving. "Wherefore, to do good and 
communicate, let us forget not; for with such sacrifices 
is the Lord well pleased." 

PRAYER. 
Almighty and Sovereign Grand A.-, of the U.\ ! 
thou who ridest in the heavens by thy name Jah! — 
Let all the earth keep silence before thee; for there is 
no God like unto thee in the heavens above nor in the 
earth beneath. Thou who keepest covenant with and 
showest mercy unto thy servants that walk before thee 
with all their hearts! when we draw nigh thy Majesty, 
may we ever preserve the memorials of thy love and 
fear, and the characters of thy ineffable essence engraven 
indelibly upon our hearts! Oh, purify our hearts, we 
beseech thee, by the fire of thy love, and guide our 
feet in the way of peace, and in that perfect path that 
shineth more and more to the perfect day ! May we all 
have an interest in that covenant which is well ordered 
and sure ! May we dwell together in unity, and be all 
of one mind, having compassion one toward another, and 
love as brethren ! May all Elect Masons, like the elect 



PERFECTION. 81 

of God, put on charity, which is the bond of perfection ! 
May our loins be girt with the girdle of truth ! And, 
finally, Heavenly Father! having been faithful in all 
our course, may we be brought to behold the light In- 
effable, and be admitted into that sacred place where 
the sun shall no more give light by day, neither for 
brightness shall the moon give light; but the Lord our 
Adonai shall be unto us an everlasting light, and our 
God our glory. Amen ! 

I shall now, my Brother, proceed to * * * *, in 
the hope that you may ever live in his adorable presence, 
with a head disposed to contrive, and a heart to feel, 
and a hand to execute, those things, toward him and 
toward your fellow-creatures, which are well pleasing in 
his sight. " Behold how good and how pleasant it is for 
brethren to dwell together in unity ! It is like the pre- 
cious ointment upon the head, which ran down upon the 
beard, even Aaron's beard, that went down to the skirts 
of his garments." 

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the 
sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. If he 
reprove me, it shall be an excellent oil. If thy brother 
be waxen old and poor, and fallen into decay, thou shalt 
relieve him. Give of thy bread to feed the hungry, and 
of thy wine to cheer the sorrowful, and forget not to 
pour the oil of consolation into the wounds which sick- 
ness or affliction may have rent in the bosom of thy 
fellow-traveller. By kindness and commiseration fail 
not to pour the balm of wine and oil into the bleeding 
heart. Our labors of duty and of love will soon be 
over. As the lightning writes its fiery path upon the 



32 MANUAL OF THE A.*. AND A.-. RITE. 

dark cloud and disappears, so the race of men, walking 
amid the surrounding shades of mortality, glitter for 
a moment through the gloom, and vanish from our sight 
forever. 

(t Virtus junxity mors non separabit" 

Lo ! Nature guards our vestal fire, 
"Which never, never can expire. 
With hearts that never change or falter, 
We here surround one common altar. 

Religion builds it, and a beam 
From Heaven's own throne — no fitful gleam — 
Wraps it in flames, while hand in hand 
We round this blazing altar stand. 

Let us, as Elect Masons true, 
Virtue's eternal league renew ; 
While celebrating friendship's feast, 
Love be our ever-welcome guest. 

And now in adoration bow 
To Him who hears and seals each vow : 
Glory to God, who reigns above, 
And to our fellow-creatures love ! 




PERFECTION. 8d 

FINAL CHARGE. 

My dear Brother, — I will now invest you with the 
Apron, Collar, and Jewel of a Gv. E.\ P.-. and S.\ M.\, 
and with great pleasure salute you with the title, and 
decorate you with the symbols thereof. 

This Collar — of flame color — is emblematic of ardent 
zeal, affection, and charity. 

The Crown on your jewel is a symbol of the royal 
origin of the degree. The compasses, extended to ninety 
degrees, denotes the extensive knowledge of the Gr.\ E.\ 
The sun, in the centre, that our actions should be as open 
as the full blaze of the noonday sun, and our charity as 
diffusive as its beams. This jewel, suspended on your 
breast, should remind you to be attentive to your duties, 
and admonishes you ever to walk so as to adorn your 
station. 

The Apron is black, lined with white and edged with 
gold: the black color is to remind you * * *, and 
teaches seriousness and humility. The white color alludes 
to that purity of heart and rectitude of conduct requisite 
for an entrance into the S.\ V.\ The gold is to remind 
you of that wisdom which should characterize all G.\ 
E.\ P.-. and S.\ M.-.s. Its form is supposed to be the 
form of the apron worn by the Perfect Masters at the 
building of the Temple of S.\, and alludes to the delta 
of Enoch, with which its centre is adorned. 

This Gtrdle with which I now invest you is the 
ancient girdle of a Gr.-. E.\ P.-. and S.\ M.\ The use 
of the girdle was to strengthen the body and thereby 
enable man to persevere in his labors. It is, therefore, 
an emblem of activity and perseverance. The girdle 
was also used to bind on the garments, and prevent them 



84 MANUAL OF THE A. 1 . AND A.\ RITE. 

from flying open and discovering our nakedness, and is 
an emblem of charity; to the observance of which virtue 
you are laid under renewed obligations. 

The investiture with a girdle was the ancient symbol 
of the attainment of divine knowledge. It is, therefore, 
to signify to you the new truths to which you have 
attained in the light of a G.\ E.\ 

It was also used for ornament and beauty. Let it be 
your endeavor, my Brother, to be adorned with and rich 
in the virtues and qualities which its various colors re- 
present. The colors are arranged according to * * * 
3 -f- 5 -f- 7 -f- 9. The three are blue, red, and yellow; 
the five consist of these three, and of green and purple ; 
the seven, of these five, with white and black; and the 
nine, of these seven, and stone and flame color. 

The blue is the symbol of divine truth, eternity, friend- 
ship, and fidelity, and is the peculiar characteristic of a 
M.-. M.-. 

The color red is the symbol of divine love, of virtue, 
and of war, and denotes the conflicts through which all 
must pass before they can become the E.\ of the S.\ Gr.\ 
A.-. 0.-. TV. U.<. 

Golden yellow* is the symbol of divine love as re- 
vealed to man, of wisdom, good counsel, and constancy, 
and should remind us that "the fear of the Lord is clean, 
enduring forever. The judgments of the Lord are true 
and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they 
than gold, yea, than much fine gold : sweeter also than* 
honey and the honey-comb (Ps. xix. 9, 10); that The 
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Ps. cxi. 

* Pale yellow represents falsehood and treachery. 



PERFECTION. 85 

10), and that the wisest of kings has said, that It is 
much better to get wisdom than gold (Prov. xvi. 16). 

Green is the symbol of the creation, of youth, of 
beauty, and of hope, and is the beautiful emblem of our 
belief in the immortality of the soul. 

Purple signifies the divine goodness, and is the emblem 
of the love of truth, of royalty, of dignity, and of maj esty 
of demeanor. 

White is the symbol of the divine wisdom, of immor- 
tality, of purity, of innocence, of peace, and of chastity. 

Black is the emblem of humility and sorrow. 

Stone color is the symbol of modesty, of durability, of 
firmness, and of constancy. 

And, lastly, th.Q flame color is the emblem of regene- 
ration, of zeal, of love, and of charity, and should be 
the distinguishing characteristic of a Gv. E.\ P.-. and 
ft.-. M>. 

These colors, united in one girdle, are emblematic of 
that unity; and the interwoven olive , of that peace which 
should link us together as brethren. 

Finally, my Brother, as these various colors shine in 
your girdle, so let the virtues they represent shine in 
your heart and grace your daily walk and conversation. 
Thus, by your meritorious and blameless conduct, con- 
stancy, and integrity, you have attained the title of Gv. 
E.\ P.-. and S.\ M.\, which is the summit of Ancient 
Craft Masonry, and upon your arrival to which I sin- 
cerely congratulate you; and I most earnestly recommend 
to you the strictest care and circumspection in your walk 
through life, that the sublime mysteries of this Degree 
be not profaned. 



86 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

HISTORY. 
"When the Temple of Jerusalem was finished, the 
masons who were employed in constructing that stately 
edifice acquired immortal honor. Their order became 
more uniformly established and regulated than it had 
been before. Their delicacy in admitting new members 
to their order brought it to a degree of respect; as the 
merit of the candidate was the only thing to which they 
then paid attention. With these principles instilled into 
their minds, many of the Grand Elect left the Temple after 
its dedication, and dispersed themselves among the neigh- 
boring kingdoms, instructing all who applied and were 
found worthy in the sublime degrees of Ancient Craft 
Masonry. The Temple was finished in the year of the 
world 3000, and was dedicated to the service of the Most 
High with the most brilliant pomp and magnificence. 

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Thus far the wise King of Israel behaved worthy of 
himself, and gained universal admiration; but in process 
of time, when he had advanced in years, his understanding 
became impaired; he grew deaf to the voice of the Lord, 
and was strangely irregular in his conduct. Proud of 
having erected an edifice to his Maker, and much intoxi- 
cated with his great power, he plunged into all manner of 
licentiousness and debauchery, and profaned the Temple, 
by offering that incense to the idol Moloch which should 
only have been offered to the living God. 

The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons saw this, and 
were sorely grieved, — being fearful that his apostasy 
would end in some dreadful consequences, and perhaps 
bring upon them their enemies, whom Solomon had 
vainly and wantonly defied. The people, copying the 



PERFECTION. 87 

follies and vices of their king, became proud and idola- 
trous, neglecting the true worship of God for that of 
idols. 

As an adequate punishment for this defection, God, 
after a succession of wicked kings, inspired the heart 
of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, to take ven- 
geance on the kingdom of Judah. This prince sent an 
army with Xebuzaradan, captain of the guards, who 
entered Judah with fire and sword, besieged and took the 
city of Jerusalem, razed its walls, and destroyed that 
superb model of excellence, — the Temple. The people 
were carried captive to Babylon, and the conquerors car- 
ried with them all the vessels of gold and silver, &c. 
This happened four hundred and seventy years, six 
months, and ten days after its dedication. 
CLOSING. 



most holy and glorious Lord our God — Thou who 
dwellest between the cherubim, and art known in the 
heavens and upon the earth by thy name Jah, — we 
humbly approach thee with awe and reverence, and im- 
plore thy blessings on us who know thy great and terrible 
name. Before we depart to our several places of abode 
and mingle again in the busy scenes of life, fill our 
hearts with thy love and fear, that our tongues may 
speak of thy goodness and our actions correspond with 
the lessons taught in this place. Create in us clean 
hearts, God, and renew right spirits within us; then 
will we teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall 



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be converted unto thee. Bless us and prosper us in life, 
and in death receive us, Lord our Adonai. Amen. 



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To us, the Grand Elect, alone, 
Its secret characters are known, 
Ineffable, divine. 

This precious treasure, long concealed, 
Was by three worthy knights revealed, 

"Where erst a temple stood. 
Its ancient ruins they explored, 
And found the grand mysterious word 

Made known before the Flood. 

Fulfilled was then the promise made, 
And Beauty's pillar soon displayed 

The treasure they had found. 
Their fervent zeal and piety, 
Their dangerous toil and constancy, 

Were with due honor crowned. 

Honors like those we all shall prove, 
Who, joined in pure and social love, 

Perfection's work pursue! 
May the Sublime Grand Architect, 
By his unerring laws, direct 

The honored, chosen few! 

May all who friendship's feast partake 
The good pursue, the bad forsake: 

And may each rite and sign 
A happy, lasting influence shed, — 
The quadrant crowned, the oil, the bread, 

The golden king, the wine. 

Long as I live, this ring I'll wear, — 
Symbol of an alliance dear 

To every brother's heart, — 
And bless the sacred tie that binds 
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THE FIFTEENTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE, AND THE FIRST OF THE HISTORICAL 
SERIES. 

A Council of Knights of the E.\ or S.\ is held in two 
apartments, called Halls of E.\ and W.\ The Hall of 
the E.\ should represent the palace of C.\ K.\ of P.-., 
magnificently furnished in the Oriental style, with water- 
green tapestry; in the E.\ a throne under a canopy; 
above the throne, a sun. 

The Hall of the W.\ should represent the Gv. L.\ of 
P.-. at J.-., amid the ruins of the T. ., and should be de- 
corated with red hangings, furnished as a L.\ of P.*., and 
lighted by 10 X 7, or 5 -f 2, lights. 

OFFICERS. 

In the Hall of the E.\, the officers are a Sovereign 
Master, who represents C.\ K.\ of P.*., seated upon the 
throne in the E.\, clothed in royal robes, a tiara upon 
his head, and a sceptre in his hand; he also wears a 
green collar, to which is suspended the jewel, — three 
golden triangles interlaced. 

The Sen.-. General, seated in the W.\, representing 
the S.\ W.\, clothed in a red or yellow robe, over which 
is worn a green collar, to which is suspended his official 
jewel, — a square within three triangles. 

The Jun.\ General, seated in the S.\, represents the 

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KNIGHT OF THE E.\, OR SWORD. 93 

J.-. W.\, and is clothed as the S.\ Gv. Official jewel, 
— a level within three triangles. 

A Grand Master of the Palace, seated in the S.\, 
clothed in a rich robe, with the order and jewel of the 
grade. 

A G-rand Master of Ceremonies, seated in the N.\, and 
wearing the dress, order, and jewel of the grade. 

The Grand Master of Dispatches, seated in the S.\, 
and clothed in the same manner as the G\\ M.\ of the 
P.-. 

And, lastly, a Grand Captain of the G-uards; station, 
in the N.\, and wearing the dress, order, and jewel 
of the grade. 

In the Hall of the W.\, the Thrice P.-. Master re- 
presents A.-.; wearing the dress of the grade; a crown 
upon his head, and a gavel in his hand. Official jewel, 
— three triangles interlaced, suspended to the order. In 
the second section of the Reception he represents Z.\ 

The S.-. W.-. in the W.\,"J.\ W.\ in the S.\, and a 
Gv. C.\ of the Gv., wearing the dress, order, and jewel 
of the degree, — except the jewels of the S.\ W.\ and 
J.-. W.*., which are the same as those worn by the Sen.-. 
Gv. and Jun.\ Gr.\ in the Hall of the E.\ 

CLOTHING. 

In the apartment of the E.\ the brethren all wear 
rich robes of yellow or red, with green turbans, having 
a golden sun embroidered on the front, together with the 
apron, order, and jewel of the degree. 

In the apartment of the TV.*, the brethren all wear 
green mantles, or cloaks, trimmed with red. Apron, — - 
white silk, lined and bordered with green ; two crossed 



94 MANUAL OF THE A.*. AND A.'. RITE. 

swords painted or embroidered on the flap, and on the 
apron a chain of three triangular links, and below it a 
bridge of three arches, on the centre arch the letters 
L.-. 0.-. P.-. 

Order,- — a broad water-green-colored ribbon, worn 
from the right shoulder to the left hip, at the bottom a 
green rosette. 

Jewel, — the same as that of a Grand Master Architect, 
with the addition of two crossed swords engraved at the 
bottom of the jewel. 

ARMS. 

In the Hall of the E.\ the arms are pikes or spears; 
in that of the W.\ the brethren all wear swords. The 
sword-belt should have two crossed swords painted or em- 
broidered thereon. 

BANNER. 

The Banner of the Order should be of green silk bor- 
dered with red; on it should be painted a lion and a 
wolf, the emblems of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. 

HOUR TO OPEN. 
The end of the ten weeks of years of the Captivity. 

OPENING. 



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KNIGHT OF THE E.\, OR SWORD. 



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I will | pay to | thee my | vows 

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KNIGHT OF THE E.\, OR SWORD. 97 



LESSON. 

"I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be 
praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies. In my 
distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : 
he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came 
before him, even into his ears. 

" As for God, his way is perfect : the word of the Lord 
is tried : he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. 
For who is God, save the Lord ? or who is a rock, save 
our God ? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and 
maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet like hinds' 
feet, and setteth me upon my high places. He teacheth 
my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine 
arms." 

"Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: 
and thy right hand hath holden me up ; and thy gentle- 
ness hath made me great. Thou hast enlarged my steps 
under me, that my feet did not slip. I have pursued 
mine enemies, and overtaken them : neither did I turn 
again till they were consumed. I have wounded them 
that they were not able to rise : they are fallen under 
my feet. For thou hast girded me with strength unto 
the battle : thou hast subdued under me those that roso 
up against me. Thou hast also given me the necks of 
mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me. 
They cried, but there was none to save them : even unto 
the Lord, but he answered them not. Then did I beat 
them small as the dust before the wind : I did cast them 
out as the dirt in the streets. Thou hast delivered me 
from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me 
the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not 



98 MANUAL OF THE A.*. AND A.'. RITE. 

known shall come and serve me. As soon as they hear 
of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit 
themselves unto me. Therefore will I give thanks unto 
thee, Lord, among the heathen, and sing praises unto 
thy name." 



HISTORY. 

The Knights of the E.\ date their origin from the 
Captivity of Babylon, where the Israelites remained 
seventy years. 

They afterwards had their liberty given them by Cyrus, 
King of Persia, at the solicitation of Zerubbabel, — a 
prince of the tribe of Judah, and descended from the race 
of David, — and Nehemiah, a holy man of a distinguished 
family. Cyrus permitted them to return to Jerusalem 
with the treasures and implements of the Temple, in- 
trusting the whole to Zerubbabel, charging him that the 
new Temple should be sixty cubits high and as many 
broad. He issued an edict to let the Masons pass freely 
through his dominions, without causing them any molest- 
ation, on pain of death. 

He ordered * * * his general to teach Zerub- 
babel the art of war, armed him with a sword, created 
him a Knight of the E.\, and gave him power to confer 
the same grade upon those Masons whom he should find 
worthy. 

Zerubbabel assembled all the Israelites, the number of 
whom was 42,360, exclusive of slaves. He then made 
choice of those Free Masons who had escaped the fury of' 
the soldiers at the destruction of the first Temple. He 
also chose seven thousand soldiers, whom he armed, — all 



KNIGHT OF THE E.\, OR SWORD. 99 

Knights, — put them at the head of the people, to fight 
such as should oppose their passage on the road to 
Judea. 

The march of the Israelites was prosperous as far as 
the river Euphrates, which separates Judea from Syria. 
Now the Knight Masons, who arrived there first, found 
troops armed to hinder their passage, on account of the 
treasures of the Temple which they carried with them. 
Xeither the remonstrances of the Knights nor the edicts 
of King Cyrus were able to restrain their insolence, and 
they fell on the Knights, who, on their side, repulsed 
them with such heroic fortitude that they were all to a 
man either drowned or cut to pieces at the passing of the 
bridge which Zerubbabel had caused to be constructed. 
After this the Israelites passed the river, and arrived 
safely at Jerusalem, where they were welcomed by those 
ancient Jews and their descendants who, having escaped 
captivity, still remained near the ruins of what had once 
been their loved habitation, — the city of Zion. Among 
these were many G-.\ E.\ P.-. and S.\ M.\, who, che- 
rishing the hope of seeing their brethren liberated, the 
city and Temple rebuilt, continued to practise the rites 
and ceremonies of the Order j their councils were pre- 
sided over by Ananias, by whom Zerubbabel was received 
with joy and declared to be the chief of the nation. 

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THE SIXTEENTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE, THE SECOND OF THE HISTORICAL 
SERIES, AND THE LAST CONFERRED IN A GRAND 
COUNCIL OF PRINCES OF JERUSALEM. 

A Council of Princes of Jerusalem consists of not less 
than ***** Princes, and is held i n * * * 
apartments, the principal of which are styled Halls of 
the E.\ and W.\ . The Hall of th« E.-. represents the 
drawing-room or hall of audience of King D.\ in B.\, 
furnished and decorated, as in the preceding degree, with 
Oriental splendor; conspicuous among the ornaments 
should be many of the H.\ V.-. and S.\ T.\ taken from 
the T.\ at J.-. 

OFFICERS. 

K.\ D.\, seated in the E.\ upon a magnificent throne 
under a rich canopy, above the canopy a representation 
of the Persian sun. Officers and stations as in the pre- 
ceding grade ; all richly attired in Oriental robes. 

The Hall of the W.\ represents the Hall of the K.-. 
of the E.\ or S.\ at J.-., decorated with cloth of gold or 
aurora-colored hangings. The E.\ represents the S.\ S.\, 
and should be separated from the W.\ by a curtain or 
veil. In the third section of the reception this veil is 
drawn aside. 

In the E.\, the ark of alliance and sacred furniture of 
the S.\ S.\ in its proper place. 



102 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.\ RITE. 

In front of the curtain, in the E.\, is a canopied 
throne for the 31.-. E.\ S.\ P.*. G.\ 31.-., elevated upon five 
steps, covered with aurora-colored cloth; near it a table 
or pedestal, covered with cloth of gold or aurora-color, 
on the front of which should be embroidered, or painted, 
a balance in equipoise; on it should be placed a sword, 
trowel, and balance. On the R.\ and L.-., each in the 
E.\, a small throne for the Princes S.\ and T.\; in the 
west, two small thrones for the Princes W.\ ; and in 
front of the W.\, near the A.-., a throne for the H.\ P.-.; 
before each throne a table or pedestal. The thrones and 
tables should be covered with cloth of gold or aurora- 
colored cloth. The hall should be lighted by 5 X 5 (25) 
lights. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers of a Council of P.*. of J.-, are as fol- 
lows : — 

1. The Most Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand 
3Iaster, representing Z.\ Jewel, — a hand of justice 
and a mallet. 

2. The Grand High Priest, or S.\ G.«. B.\ D.-. G.\ M.-., 
representing J.\ Jewel, — a circle surrounding a delta. 

3. The 3Iost Enlightened Senior Grand Warden, re- 
presenting a P.-. of J h. Jewel, — the pillar of 

strength and a shield. 

4. The M.\ E.-. J.-. G.\ W.-.J representing a P.-. of 
B.\ Jewel, — a compass resting upon the segment of a 
circle. 

5. The Valorous Grand Keeper of the Seals and 

Archives, representing a P.-. of the If- s. Jewel, — a 

balance in equipoise. 



PRINCE OF JERUSALEM. 103 

6. The V.\ G-rand Treasurer, representing a P.-. of 
the T.\ Jewel, — an oblong square and a vase. 

7. The V.\ Grand Master of Ceremonies, stationed in 
the N.\ 3 and representing a P.-. of the TW. Jewel, — 
a trowel and plumb. 

8. The V.\ G.-. M.\ of the Entrances, stationed in 

the N.\j and representing a P.-. of the G- s. Jewel, 

— a halberd or spear. 

9. The V.\ G.\ Tyler. Jewel, — a flaming sword. 
The official jewels are of gold, suspended within a 

square or engraved upon a square medal of gold, and 
are worn suspended to a collar of aurora-colored ribbon. 
The meetings are called Conventions. 

CLOTHING. 

The officers and brethren wear white, purple, or 
aurora-colored robes and caps; and each should be pro- 
vided with a sword, shield, and cuirass. 

Apron, — white silk, bordered with gold lace and lined 
with aurora color; on it should be painted or embroi- 
dered the emblems of the grade. 

Order, — a wide aurora-colored ribbon, worn from the 
right shoulder to the left hip. 

Jewel, — a square medal of silver or mother-of-pearl; 
upon both sides of which, in gold enamel, is a hand 
holding a balance in equipoise, a two-edged sword in a 
perpendicular position, hilt down, with five stars sur- 
rounding the point, and the letters D and Z, one at each 
side of it, to be worn on the breast. 

HOURS OF WORK. 
From sunrise until sunset. 



104 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

OPENING. 



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" This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, 
Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the 
Lord of Hosts. Who art thou, great mountain ? Be- 
fore Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain ', and he shall 
bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, 
Grace, grace unto it! Moreover, the word of the Lord 
came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have 
laid the foundations of this house; his hands shall also 
finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of Hosts 
hath sent me unto you." — Zech. iv. 6-9. 

****** Your opportune arrival among 
us at this time will enable you to participate in a feast 
which I give this day to the nobles of my kingdom. To 
this feast I invite you and your associate knights, and by 
our eating and drinking together will, I trust, be renewed 
our ancient ties of friendship. After the feast, I will be 
happy to hear what you may have to communicate in 
behalf of your brethren. Previous to which, I desire 
you to take a part in our deliberations and pronounce 
your opinion on a certain question to be proposed for 
discussion. 



PRINCE OF JERUSALEM. 105 

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Speak, Satrap of Assyria! State the question, and an- 
nounce the reward I have promised to bestow upon him 
who shall answer it in the most satisfactory manner ! 

sovereign master, the king, wishing to dispense his 
favors with a liberal hand, has deigned to promise the 
second place near his august person, a purple robe, a 
golden baldric, and a seat upon a golden throne, to him 
who will be able to solve this question : " What holds 
the most powerful sway over mortals?" 

But, king ! is it possible that such a question can 
for a moment be a subject of doubt or deliberation to 
any one who adverts to thee, thou son of the sun ! whose 
court is composed of one hundred and twenty-seven poten- 
tates of the most distant nations of the earth ? Peace 
or war depends upon your will! In your hands are the 
lives of your numerous subjects. To you belongs all that 
we possess : a word from your lips is a decree for the 
whole earth. The world has no master but you. There 
cannot, then, be a more puissant empire than that of 
Darius the Great, the king of all the East and the 
sovereign of sovereigns. ********* 
^:****^** 

* * * * What remains for me to say ? Shall I 
differ from Artaban, who has received the approval and 
plaudits of your whole court ? He contends, king ! 
that there is nothing greater or more powerful than 
yourself. I acknowledge your greatness, the eclat of 
your name, the majesty of your power, and the im- 
mensity of your riches. But greater than all these, 
king, is the empire of Beauty ! This softens the hearts 
of the most ferocious, gains over judges the most severe, 



10G MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.\ RITE. 

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and triumphs over masters the most imperious. De- 
prived of fortune, it needs it not; for, indeed, all trea- 
sures are at its disposal. If not possessed of worldly rank 
or grandeur, it rises above it, all stations are subject to 
it, the will of princes and sovereigns often depends upon 
its caprice. 

What was my daughter Apamee, without wealth or 
rank, before her beauty elevated her to the nuptial bed 
of Darius? To-day, Assyrians, this great prince reigns 
over you ; in turn, she reigns over him : he wills what 
she approves; he does what she desires. Does she re- 
joice? he is pleased; is she melancholy? he is sad. In 
fine, she is the soul that gives an impress and bias to all 
his actions. From her he learns to find something more 
interesting than kingly glory and greatness. She sees 
him at her feet, and he voluntarily submits all his imperial 
greatness to her beauty. ********* 

* * * * \\ T hat is this that I hear in your court, 
O Darius? Has it already become corrupt by flattery 
and effeminacy? Reject, oh, reject, great king! with 
indignation those flattering sentiments that have just been 
uttered ! Strength and power reside in kings ; beauty 
has its influence; but it is the mark of true wisdom to 
acknowledge the empire of Truth. Omnipotent is 
Truth, — greater, far greater, than any transitory throne, 
more durable than frail dying beauty : both the one and 
the other are of short duration; but Truth lives forever. 
The power of kings and of beauty is subject to the re- 
volution of time and chance, but Truth changeth not: 
always pure, always simple, it is one of the essences of 
the S.-. G.-. A.-. 0.-. T.\ U.-.— The tie of treaties, it is 
the motive of every just action, the basis of all laws, 



PRINCE OF JERUSALEM. 107 

the seal of the sovereign majesty, and the object of every 
good man's search. We love it, and love and respect 
those who demonstrate it; while we despise and detest 
those who conceal or subvert it. Lying disguises it, 
and by borrowing its appearance furnishes the best and 
clearest avowal of its superiority. 

Considerations, king ! more powerful than human, or 
even life or death, induce me thus to speak in its favor, 
in opposition to the flattering sentiments which might 
have seduced you from the true path. I am well assured, 
great prince, that you will confirm by your decision the 
Empire op Truth. Great and omnipotent is Truth, — 
greater, far greater, than any transitory throne, or vain, 
decaying beauty. *********** 

* * * Yes, Zerubbabel, great is Truth ! Come, 
and cause to shine forth the triumph of Truth, by receiving 
the honor and rewards so justly your due. 

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* * * Zerubbabel, the highest rewards I can bestow 
upon you will not be commensurate with your deserts j 
for having saved me from the snare of corruption I am 
infinitely your debtor. Besides, the recompense you have 
already received; and, in order to attach nearer my person 
one whose friendship is so precious and true, I constitute 
you from this moment Grand Master of my Household. 

* * * *" Sovereign of sovereigns ! For the favors 
you have lavished upon me I have not words to express 
my thanks! But the will of Him who regulates the 
destinies of all men does not permit me to be master of 
my own destiny. ******* **** 

***** *** 



108 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.\ RITE. 

LESSON.* 

"By the rivers of Baby km, there we sat down, yea, 
we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our 
harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there 
they that carried us away captive required of us a song; 
and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, 
Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing 
the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, 
Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I 
do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof 
of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief 
joy."— Anthem (pp. 272, 273.) 
PRAYER. 

"Remember, Lord, the children of Edom in the day 
of Jerusalem, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the 
foundation thereof! daughter of Babylon, who art 
to be destroyed ! happy shall he be that rewardeth thee 
as thou hast served us! Happy shall he be that taketh 
and dasheth thy little ones against the stones! When 
the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were 
like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with 
laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they 
among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for 
them. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof 
we are glad. Turn again our captivity, Lord, as the 
streams in the so*th ! They that sow in tears shall reap 
in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing pre- 
cious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, 
bringing his sheaves with him. Help us, God of our 
salvation, for the glory of thy name, and deliver us! and 
purge away our sins for thy name's sake! Amen." — 
Ps. exxxvii., exxvi., lxxix. 9. 
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Are the feet of | him that | bringeth good | tidings ; 

2. That pro- | claimeth | peace, 

That | bringeth good | tidings of | good; 

3. That pro- | claimeth sal- | vation ; 

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With the voice to- | gether | shall they | sing. 

5. For they shall see | eye to | eye, 

When Jehovah shall | bring a- | gain | Zion. 

6. Break forth | into | joy, 

Sing together, ye waste places | of Je- | rusa- | lem . 

7. For Jehovah hath comfort- | ed his | people ; 
He hath re- | deemed Je- | rusa- | lem. 

8. Jehovah hath made bare his | holy | arm 
In the | eyes of | all the | nations ; 

9. And all the | ends of . the [ earth 
Shall see the sal- [ vation | of our God. 

Isa. Hi. 7-10. 



110 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 



HISTORY. 

During the reign of Darius, the successor of Cyrus to 
the Persian throne, an embassy, with Zerubbabel as its 
head, was sent by the Jews to implore that monarch to 
permit the resumption of the work of rebuilding their 
city and Temple, which, by the interference of the Sama- 
ritans, had entirely ceased. Through the influence of 
Zerubbabel, Darius granted them his assistance and pro- 
tection, and made a decree prohibiting, under the penalty 
of death, any person from molesting or interfering with 
the Masons in rebuilding the city and Temple. Zerub- 
babel returned to Jerusalem, and gave an account of the 
success of the embassy. The tidings were received with 
many demonstrations of joy; the work was resumed; and, 
being under the protection of Darius, their labors were 
no longer interrupted, and the Temple was completed and 
dedicated to the Most High.* 

* For a more complete history of the interesting events upon 
which this, and the preceding Degree were founded, see Ezra 
iii., iv., v., vi. ; Nehemiah iv. ; Lodge's Josephus, book xi. 
chap. 3, edition of 1640. 



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THE SEVENTEENTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE, THE FIRST OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL 
SERIES, AND THE FIRST CONFERRED IN A CHAPTER 
OF ROSE-CROIX. 

The Council Chamber must have red hangings 
sprinkled with gold stars. In the E.\ a throne sup- 
ported by four lions, elevated upon seven steps; between 
the lions an animal of human shape, with wings. On 
one side of the throne, a blazing sun, on the other a 
moon; beneath them, and spreading over the last, a 
rainbow; near the throne, in front, are two tables, the 
one upon the left having upon it a basin of perfumed 
water, a skull and bones. The one upon the right the 
* * * * In the W.\ are two thrones, elevated upon five 
steps. At the N.\ and S.\, two small thrones on three 
steps for the V.*. A.-. 

OFFICERS. 

An assembly of K.\ of the E.\ and W.\ is styled a 
Council, and consists of twenty-four Knights. The 
Venerable Master, seated in the E.\, is styled "All 
Puissant;" the two Wardens, seated in the W.\, "Vene- 
rable Knights;" the brethren, "Respectable Knights." 

CLOTHING. 

The omcers wear robes of white, with a golden cinc- 
ture; the Knights, their ordinary dress, over which are 
worn the apron, order, collar, and jewels of the grade. 



KNIGHT OF THE EAST AND WEST. 113 

Apron, — white, lined with red and bordered with gold; 
on the flap a two-edged sword, surrounded with the H.-. 
L.\; on the apron a plan of the draft. 

Order, — a wide white ribbon, edged with gold, worn 
from the right shoulder to the left hip, to which is sus- 
pended the jewel of the grade, a heptagon of silver, at 
each angle a gold star and one of the following letters, 
viz.: B.\, D.\, W.*. 3 P.-., H.\, Gv., S.\j in the centre a 
lamb on a book, with seven seals; a balance in equipoise, 
and below the balance, in a perpendicular position, with 
the hilt down, a two-edged sword. 

Collar, — black, to which is suspended the cross of the 
order. 

OPENING. 



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When the Knights and Princes concluded to conquer 
the Holy Land, they took a banner with the Cross, to 
distinguish themselves as being under that banner, and 
entered into an agreement to spill the last drop of their 

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blood to establish the true Christian religion. But, peace 
being made, they could not fulfil their vow : they there- 
fore returned to their respective countries, and resolved 
to do by theory what they could not do by practice, and 
never to admit into their ceremonies any but those who 
had given proof of friendship, zeal, and discretion. 
They took the name of Knights of the East and West, 
to teach the world where that Order began. 

In the year 1118, the first Knights, to the number of 
eleven, took their vows between the hands of Gauranus, 
Prince and Patriarch of Jerusalem. 



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OIGKT OF THE EAGLE AND PELICAN. 

THE EIGHTEENTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE, AND THE LAST CONFERRED IN A 
CHAPTER OF ROSE-CROIX. 

Assemblies of S.\ P.*. Rose-Croix de H.\ are styled 
Sovereign Chapters. In the Reception four apartments 
are used. The first apartment should have black hang- 
ings, strewed with white tears, the furniture draped in 
mourning, and is lighted by 3 X H (33) lights. 

In the E.\, S.\, and N.\ are three columns, representing 
F.-.,H.-.,C.-. 

The third apartment has red hangings, is elegantly 
furnished, and is lighted by the same number of lights 
as the first: it has also the three columns of F.\, H.\, 
C-. 

-OFFICEKS. 

1. The Master, seated in the E.\, is styled Most Wise 
and Perfect Master. Official jewel, — a flaming star of 
gold, with the letter J.-, in the centre, surrounded by the 
letters F.-. H.-. C.\ 

2. The Senior Warden is seated in the W.\, and is 
styled Most Excellent and Perfect Knight S.\ W.\ 
Jewel, — a gold triangle, in the centre a cross. 



SOV. PRINCE OF ROSE-CROIX DE H.-R.-D.-M. 119 

3. The Junior Warden, seated in the S.\, is called 
M.\ E.\ and Perfect Knight J.-. W.\ Jewel,— a gold 
square and compasses. 

4. The Respectable and Perfect Knight, Captain of 
the G-uards; station, in the N.\ Jewel, — a gold spear. 

5. The R.\ and P.*. Knight, Master of Ceremonies. 
Jewel, — a gold staff. 

6. The R.\ and P.-. K.\ Secretary. Jewel, — a gold 
pen. 

7. The R.\ and P.-. K.\ Treasurer. Jewel, — a gold 
key. 

In this grade there is no Tyler, — the duties of that office 
being performed by the youngest Knight present. 

CLOTHING. 

Clothes black, over which is worn a white woollen 
chasuble, bordered with black, and having on it, before 
and behind, a large red cross. 

There are two Aprons : — the first is of white satin or 
lambskin, lined and trimmed with black; on it three 
black rosettes in the form of a delta; in the centre of 
the triangle the letter J.-, painted or embroidered in gold; 
below the rosettes, a globe, encircled by a serpent; on 
the flap a skull and cross-bones, and on the lining a red 
cross. 

The second Apron is of white satiu, lined and bordered 
with red, having on it, embroidered or painted in gold, a 
triple triangle within three squares, enclosed -in three 
circles; in the centre the letter J.-.; above, or on one 
side, the compasses, with each point resting upon an 
angle of a triangle. 

Official Collar — worn by the first three officers, — black 



120 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

satin or "watered silk, edged with gold; on it, painted or 
embroidered, three crosses of gold and three gold rosettes. 

The Order is of satin, or watered silk, red on one 
side and black on the other. On the red side are three 
black rosettes and crosses; on the black side, three red 
rosettes and crosses. A gold cross is worn suspended at 
the bottom of the Order. 

The jewel of the Order is an open compass crowned 
with an antique five-pointed crown; the points of the 
compasses rest upon the segment of a circle ; between the 
legs of the compasses is a cross resting upon the arc 
of the circle; on the cross rises the full-blown mystic 
rose of four petals (two white and two red), with its 
stem twined about the lower limb of the cross; on one 
side, at the foot of the cross, is a pelican piercing her 
side, to feed her young, — of which there are five or seven 
in a nest under it; on the reverse, an eagle, with wings 
expanded. On one side of the arc of the circle the 
name of the Knight should be engraved; on the other, 
the P.-. W.\ and C. - . in cipher. The compasses, arc of 
a circle, and cross are of gold; the eagle, pelican, and 
rose are of silver. 

OPENING. 



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SOV. PRINCE OF ROSE-CROIX DE H.-R.-D.-M. 121 
FIE ST SECTION. 



My Brother, — King Solomon erected on Mount Zion 
a Temple, in which to render the S.\ Gr.: A.\ Ov T.\ 
U. - . the honor due to Him from mortals. 

Solomon received from God, in Gabaon, that wisdom 
which he was not able to conserve in Zion; and his 
errors giving attaint to his glory, the mysteries of its 
sacred tabernacles were veiled from him. 

This example — as striking as that of the conduct of the 
children of Israel during the forty days that the Prophet 
went away into Sinai — demonstrates the instability and 
blindness of the man reputed wise, and should induce us 
to be on our guard against ourselves and all others: 
"Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes and 
prudent in their own sight ! Let no man deceive him- 
self: if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this 
world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For 
the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For 
it is written, He taketh the wise in their own crafti- 
ness." And, again, "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of 
the wise, that they are vain. The fear of the Lord is the 
beginning of wisdom. A good understanding have all 
they that do his commandments. Happy is the man 
that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth under- 
standing : for the merchandise of it is better than the 

merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine 
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122 MANUAL OF THE A.*. AND A.'. RITE. 

gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the 
things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto 
her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her 
left hand, riches and honor. Her ways are ways of 
pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree 
of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is 
every one that retaincth her." 

The Temple of Jehovah sullied, profaned, and forsaken 
in Zion, that of Moloch and its idols watered with the 
blood of human victims, burning upon its altars the 
incense due only to the true and living God, are not the 
only stains on the glory of Israel. Ashtaroth. — idol of 
the Sidonians, — demons, abominations of the children of 
Amon, — seated on the altars prepared for the Divinity, 
obscure it of every ray of glory and deprive it of its 
original splendor. Bethel is sullied by the abominable 
preachings of Ephraim, — the false gods of Samaria, 
Damascus, and Azot, whose idols subjected Egypt and 
Palestine to their impious worship and prevented any 
approacli towards the attainment of true wisdom. The 
vapors that rise from the mire of the earth to the splen- 
dor of the sun possess only a borrowed lustre : as soon as 
the sun has retired, the passiug brightness of the cloud 
is dispelled and disappears. Withdraw, all of you, dark 
phantoms and black exhalations, monsters, children of 
chimera and delusion, which delude the unwary traveller! 
Withdraw, all of you, lying oracles, auguries and magic 
diviners, and false prophets, audacious and fantastic 
monsters, usurpers of the gifts of Heaven ! The Most 
High, seated upon his throne, placed on the clouds, 
triumphs over your sacrilegious attempts ! 



SOV. PRINCE OF ROSE-CROIX OF H.-R.-D.-M. 



123 



LESSON. 

Matt, xxvii. 

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Let us no longer lament over the misfortunes of Eden, 
or on those of Zion : they no longer obstruct the efforts 
of a free and absolute will. The malignant genius who 
contrived them remains a nullity in his abortive empire. 
Eden, that antique garden, that visible paradise, will be 
but a weak image of the splendors of the heavens and 
of the beatitudes which the Eternal has created for those 
that love him. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things 
which Grod hath prepared for them that love him." 



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Rev. iv. 1-8, 11. 



124 MANUAL OP THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

F.-. 

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evi- 
dence of things not seen. Through faith we compre- 
hend that the worlds were formed by the Word of God. 
By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see 
death. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered 
up Isaac; and he that received the promises offered up his 
only-begotten Son. 

By faith, a steady course we steer 

Through ruffling storms and swelling seas ; 

By faith, we pass the vale of tears 

Safe and secure, though oft distressed; 

By faith, subdue the king of fears, 
And go rejoicing to our rest. 
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H.-. 

Hope is the evidence of things not seen, waiting for 
the redemption of our bodies from death. For we are 
saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope. 
For what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But 
if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience 
wait for it. 

The hope of heaven our spirits cheer; 

No more we grieve for sorrows past, 
Nor any future conflicts fear, 

So we may safe arrive at last. 

Lord, on thee our hopes we stay 

To lead us on to thine abode, 
Assured thy love will far o'erpay 

The hardest labors of the road. 



SOV. PRINCE OF ROSE-CROIX DE H.-R.-D.-M. 125 

C-; 

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of 
angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding 
brass or a tinkling cymbal. Charity suffereth long 7 and 
is kind. Charity envieth not; charity yaunteth not 
itself; is not puffed up; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but 
rejoiceth in the truth; believeth all things; hopeth all 
things; endureth all things. Charity never faileth. 
And now abideth Faith, Hope, and Charity ; but the 
greatest of these is Charity. For, 

Blest is the man whose softening heart 

Feels all another's pain, 
To whom the supplicating eye 

Is never turned in vain. 

To him protection shall be shown, 

And mercy from above 
Descend on those who thus fulfil 

The Christian's law of love. 

u As my Father hath loved me, even so have I loved 
you." 

" A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love 
one another/' 

"The First of all the commandments is, Hear, 
Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt 
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all 
thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. 
This is the First commandment. 

" And the Second is like unto it : — Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor as thyself. On these two -commandments hang 
all the Law and the Prophets." 



126 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.' 



SECOND SECTION. 



Hear my prayer, Lord, and give ear unto my cry; 
hold not thy peace at my tears : for I am a stranger with 
thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Oh, spare 
me, that I may recover strength before I go hence and 
be no more. Lord, thou hast searched me and 
known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine 
uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou 
compassest my path and my lying down, and art ac- 
quainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in 
my tongue, but lo, Lord, thou knowest it altogether. 
Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine 
hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for 
me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall 
I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy 
presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there. 
If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I 
take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the utter- 
most parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, 
and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the dark- 
ness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about 
me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the 
night shineth as the day : the darkness and the light are 
both alike to thee. Be thou not far from me; Lord, 
haste to deliver me, for I am brought very low. Bring 
my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks unto thy 
holy name. Man that is born of a woman is of few days 
and full of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower, and is 
cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his 
months are with thee. In the midst of life we are in 
death ; but to whom may we look for succor but to thee, 



SOY. PRINCE OF ROSE-CROIX DE H.-R.-D.-M. 



127 



Lord? I heard a voice from heaven, saying. Blessed 
are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth : Yea, 
saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, 
and their works do follow them. Death, where is thy 
sting? Grave, where is thy victory? I am the re- 
surrection and the life, saith the Lord. 

He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet 
shall he live ; and whosoever believeth in me shall never 
die. 



THIRD SECTION. 



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Be thy perfect name adored ! 

Men on earth, and saints above, 
Sing the great Redeemer's love ; 
Lord, thy mercies never fail, 
Hail ! Celestial Goodness, hail ! 

Saviour! while on earth we stay, 
Guide our footsteps in the way. 
Mortals, raise your voices high, 
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gratulate you on ***** *, through which 
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SOV. PRINCE OF ROSE^CROIX BE H.-R.-D.-M. 133 

* * * * * * you perceive, no doubt with satis- 
faction, that you were not deceived when you were 
promised an aim sublime, which should make you perfect 
in the mysteries of Masonry and unveil to you its alle- 
gorical emblems. To that point we are about to arrive. 
Now that you have attained this high estate in Masonry, 
you have found in it all that is beautiful and good; you 
have become perfect. The sublime and the true have 
been developed to your eyes. It is not enough, my 
brother, to have been able to merit and acquire it, you 
must more and more render yourself perfect in it, and 
study to draw from it for the future all the fruits possible. 
And may you, my dear brother, long enjoy it among us. 
Grant us that friendship which is the bond of all associa- 
tions, and be assured of ours, which you have now ac- 
quired. 

PRAYER. 
Deign, Sovereign Master of the Universe, to cast a 
propitious look on this assembly. Bless it; but suffer 
it to perish rather than to contravene thy holy law. 
Banish, Lord, from thy sanctuary all that is impious 
or profane, and grant, we beseech thee, that, being 
solely occupied in the great work of our perfection, we 
may be enabled clearly to distinguish that which is up- 
right from that which is ungodly; and, finally, may the 
sacred bond of our union be cemented by peace, bene- 
volence, and charity. And now to the King Eternal be 
glory and honor forever. Amen. 

" Hosanna ! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of 

the Lord ! Hosanna in the highest/' " Peace on earth, 

and good will to men." 

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REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CHAFTERS OF S.', 

P.'. OF ROSE-CROIX DE H.-R.-D.-M. AND KNIGHTS OF THE 

EAGLE AND FELICAN. 

Art. 1. — The principal festival is held on Thursday 
preceding Good Friday. It is incumbent on all Chap- 
ters to assemble on that day ; and if a Knight should be 
where there is no Chapter, he is to observe the time in 
communion of spirit with all Knights around the globe. 

Art. 2. — S.\ P.*. of Rose-Croix are styled Knights, 
Princes, and Perfect Masons of H.-R.-D.-M. 

Art. 3. — The Princes have the right of presiding in 
all Lodges working under the A.-, and A.-. Rite; and 
if the chair is refused them, they take their place at the 
right of the Master, or elsewhere in the Lodge, as they 
may prefer. 

Art. 4. — All Princes of Rose-Croix are forbidden any 
Chapter or Lodge, without the jewel or order belonging 
to this degree; and they should never sign any Masonic 
document without affixing their quality to their name. 

Art. 5. — When a Knight visits a Chapter not his 
own, he places himself in humility; but the M.\ W.\ 
may cause him to take a place by his side in the E.\ 

Art. 6. — A regular Chapter must meet at least five 
times in a year ; that is, Thursday before Easter, — Ascen- 
sion Day, — Pentecost Day, — All Saint's Day, — and Christ- 
mas. They should also join with their brethren in the 
observance of the Sts. John Days. 



NINETEEN ARTICLES OF THE ANCIENT STATUTES. 135 

Art. 7. — If a Knight of Rose-Croix, being alone, 
hears of another Knight sojourning at not over three 
leagues from him, he should invite him to participate in 
the observance of Holy Thursday; in which case they 
meet each other half-way. 

Art. 8. — No Chapter can be opened unless five 
Knights be present; and the number must not exceed 
eleven. The minutes must be signed by at least three 
of the Knights present. 

Art. 9. — A Knight of Rose-Croix must be charitable. 
He must relieve the indigent, visit the sick and the 
prisons. No Chapter should be held without a collection 
for the poor. The Sovereign is the Treasurer of this 
fund, as necessity may require. 

Art. 10. — Duels between Knights are strictly forbid- 
den, under the most severe penalties. 

Art. 11. — A Knight of Rose-Croix is bound by his 
honor to the service of his God, his government, and his 
country, to the last drop of his blood. 

Art. 12. — No Knight of Rose-Croix can refuse to 
attend the Chapter when summoned, unless sick, — when 
he can present his reasons to the Chapter. 

Art. 13. — The Chapter must be lighted with white 
or yellow wax candles, or pure olive-oil. 

Art. 14. — No discussions foreign to the business of 
the Chapter can be allowed. Calumny, satire, and per- 
sonal remarks are ever to be avoided as crimes. 

Art. 15.— The grade of S.-. P.-. R.\ Croix de H.-. 
should never be conferred without the most scrupulous 
inquiries and circumspection as to the moral, religious, 
and other necessary qualifications of the applicant. 

Art. 16. — No document can be valid "unless signed 



136 MANUAL OF THE A/. AND A.-. RITE. 

by the Sovereign, Secretary, and sealed by the Keeper 
of Seals. 

Art. 17.— The officers must be elected annually on 
Holy Thursday, and immediately enter on their duties. 
The retiring officers should be prepared to hand their 
books, accounts, and funds to their successors on that 
day. 

Art. 18. — No serving brother can be admitted in any 
Chapter. The two brethren last received must act in 
that capacity. 

Art. 19. — If a Knight of Rose-Croix dies, all the 
Knights must participate in the funeral ceremonies and 
wear under their coat the order and jewel of the grade. 
Great care must be taken to see that the deceased is 
buried with the Cross of the Order upon his breast 



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THE NINETEENTH DEGREE OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE, 

AND THE FIRST OF THE FIFTH SERIES* CONFERRED 

IN A GRAND CONSISTORY OF S.\ P.*. R.\ S.\ 

Assemblies of this grade are styled Chapters, and are 
decorated with hangings of blue strewed with gold stars. 
The Lodge is lighted in the East by a transparency, re- 
presenting the sun. The Draft of the Lodge represents 
a square city with openings on each side, which are to 
represent three gates on aside, — twelve in all; in the 
midst of the city a tree bearing twelve different kinds of 
fruit. 

OFFICERS AND CLOTHING. 

The presiding officer is styled Thrice Puissant Grand 
Pontiff, and is vested with a white satin robe. The 
brethren are styled Faithful and True Brethren. They 
all have a blue satin fillet, with twelve gold stars on it, 
worn around the head. There is only one "Warden, 
who has a staff of gold in his hand, and sits opposite the 
Grand Pontiff. The T.\ P.-. sits under a blue canopy, 
on a throne in the East, before the transparency, holding 
a sceptre in his hand. On either side of him is a co- 
lumn, on the top of which is the letter A.-., and at the 
bottom the letter 0.-. 

* Many of the grades of this series are usually conferred 
by communication. 



GRAND PONTIFF. 139 

Order, — a broad crimson ribbon, on it, in front, twelve 
gold stars; jewel, — a square plate of gold, on one side 
of which is engraved the word Alpha, and on the other 
the word Omega. 

The Warden and brethren wear robes of white linen. 

HOUR TO OPEN. 
The hour foretold. 

OPENING. 



II I I i I I I I i II 
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RECEPTION. 
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TO CLOSE. 
The hour accomplished. 



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GRAND MASTEE OE ALL SYMBOLIC LODGES. 

THE TWENTIETH DEGREE OE THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE, AND THE SECOND OP THE FIPTH 
SERIES. 

In this grade the Lodge must be decorated with blue 
and yellow hangings. A throne in the East, raised on 
nine steps ; over it is a canopy, on which is painted the 
All-Seeing Eye. In the South are nine lights in a 
candlestick with nine branches. 

OFFICERS, ETC. 

The presiding officer is styled Grand Master, and re- 
presents Cyrus Artaxerxes. He is seated on the throne 
in the E.\, and wears a royal robe, with a crown upon his 
head and a golden sceptre in his hand ; he also wears 
the two orders and jewel of the grade. Before his 
throne is a table having on it the H.\ B.\ S.\ and C.\, 
a gavel, and a sword. There are two "Wardens, seated 
in the W.\, and representing the two principal officers 
of the Persian monarch's court. The wardens and 
brethren are clothed in rich Oriental robes, and wear the 
orders and jewel of the degree. Orders, — broad blue 
and yellow ribbons crossing each other on the breast. 
Jewel, — a triangular plate of gold, on it the word Secret 
engraved. The jewel is worn suspended to the yellow 
order. 



144 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE. 

No Lodge can be opened unless there are nine Masters 
present. 

OPENING. 



ID 



RECEPTION. 

The candidate represents Z.\ ***** * 

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TO CLOSE. 
Enter into the Cave of Siloe. 






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ALSO CALLED 

PEUSSIAN KNIGHT, OE NOACHITE. 



THE TWENTY-FIRST DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE, AND THIRD GRADE OF THE FIFTH 
SERIES. 

This beautiful grade consists of two distinct parts, and 
in Europe is much sought after and worked in full. 
Assemblies of this grade are styled Chapters. 

The Draft of a Chapter represents the firmament with 
the full moon and stars, on which the eye may rest. The 
place for holding a Chapter should be so situated that 
the full moon and stars may enlighten it through one or 
more windows, as this is the only light allowed. 

In the W.\ is a representation of Noah's ark, with a 
dove holding an olive-leaf in his beak, flying to the win- 
dow whence it was let out. 

In another part of the room is an urn, made of an 
agate stone. 

OFFICERS, ETC. 

1. The first officer is called Lieutenant Commander, 
and represents Frederick the Great, of Prussia. He is 
decorated with a broad black ribbon worn in the form 
of a collar, to which is suspended the jewel of the grade. 

2. The second officer is called Grand Inspector, and 

is decorated with the jewel of the degree, suspended to 

the order. 
146 



PATRIARCH NOACHITE. 147 

3. The third officer is called Introductor. 

4. The Knight of Eloquence, or Grand Orator. 

5. The Grand Chancellor. 

6. The Grand Treasurer. 

7. The seventh officer is called Grand Captain of the 
Guards. 

The five last-named officers all wear the jewel of the 
degree suspended to the order ; the seventh officer also 
wears a helmet. 

The members are styled Prussian Knights, or Noachites. 
In case there are but few members present, any three of 
the seven officers can hold a Chapter to transact busi- 
ness. 

CLOTHING. 

Order, — a broad black ribbon, worn from the right 
shoulder to the left hip ; at the bottom is suspended the 
jewel of the grade. Jewel, — a gold equilateral triangle, 
with a winged arrow crossing the centre, point down. A 
silver moon may also be worn on the breast or suspended 
to a button-hole of the coat. Apron and gloves, yellow. 

OPENING. 

Lesson, — Pride and arrogance are offensive to God, 
and must inevitably meet their just punishment. 



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148 MANUAL OP THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

HISTORY. 

The descendants of Noah resolved to build a tower so 
high as to prevent the Almighty from again destroying 
the world by a flood, and to get themselves a name in 
the world. They chose for their purpose the Plains of 
Shinar, in Asia. Ten years after the foundations were 
laid, the Lord looking down upon earth and beholding 
the pride and audacious attempt of the people, He de- 
scended to confound their project by causing a confusion 
of language among the workmen, so that they could not 
understand one another, whence it was called Babel. 
Some time after, Nimrod established a distinction among 
men, and founded a city, and called it Babylon. Tradition 
says, the miracle of the confusion of tongues occurred at 
the full of the moon ; in commemoration of which the 
festivals of this degree are held in the month of March, at 
the full of the moon. Tradition further informs us that 
after the language was confounded at the building of the 
Tower of Babel, the workmen separated and dispersed into 
different countries. The architect of the tower travelled 
into Germany, where he arrived after a long and tedious 
journey. He fixed his residence in that part now called 
Prussia, where, in the year 1553, in digging for salt- 
mines, the workmen made a singular discovery * * * 
********* The degree of Noachite, 
it is claimed, was founded on events that occurred during 
the building of the tower of Babel, and was originally 
an order unconnected with Masonry; but in the times 
of the Crusades the Knights of the different Orders were 
initiated into this degree by the Christian princes, in 
order to conquer the Holy Land, which was invaded by 



PATRIARCH NOACHITE. 149 

the infidels. Those Masons that were descended from 
Solomon were most attached to the Noachites, and were 
initiated into their Order, and by them the Noachites 
were initiated into the mysteries of Masonry. Since 
which time, according to the statutes of the Order, none 
are admitted to this degree unless they have attained the 
Grade of G.-. E.-. P.-. and S.-. Masons. 

In 1755 this grade was arranged in its present form 
by Frederick the Great, of Prussia * * ****** 
and has become the twenty-first grade of the Ancient and 
Accepted Rite. 



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THE TWENTY-SECOND DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE, AND THE FOURTH GRADE CON- 
FERRED IN A GRAND CONSISTORY. 

The assemblies of this grade are held in two apart- 
ments. The first is styled a College, and represents a 
workshop on Monnt Lebanon; the. second is styled a 
Council of the Round Table, and represents the design- 
ing-room of the architects or overseers of the workmen 
employed on Mount Lebanon. The first apartment is 
decorated with blue hangings and illuminated by eleven 
lights arranged in a circular form in the centre of the 
apartment. The second apartment has red hangings. 

OFFICERS. 

In the first apartment the presiding officer is styled 
Most Wise; in the second he is styled G-rand Patriarch. 
Aside from the presiding officer, there are also in each 
apartment two others. 

CLOTHING. 

Apron, — white, with a round table painted or em- 
broidered thereon, with mathematical instruments, archi- 
tectural plans, &c, lying on it. Order, — a wide rain- 
bow-colored ribbon, worn from the right shoulder to the 

151 



152 MANUAL OF THE A.*. AND A.\ RITE. 

left hip, to which is suspended the jewel of the degree. 
Jewel, — a golden axe, surmounted by a gold crown, on 
one side of the blade the letters L.\ S.\, on the handle, 
on the same side, the letters A.-. B.\ D.\ C.\ D.\ X.-. 
Z.\ A.-., on the other side of the blade the letter S.\, 
on the handle, on that side, the letters S.\ N.\ S.\ C.\ 
I.-. M.-. B.-. E.-. 

OPENING. 



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HISTORY. 

This degree was established, and added thereto, on 
different occasions, when the cedars of Lebanon were cut 
down for holy purposes. The Sidonians were zealous 
for all holy enterprises. The descendants of J.-, cut the 
cedars for the Temple of Solomon. They were furnished 
under the direction of Prince H.\; the same nation 
floated the timbers by sea to Joppa, for the Temple and 
other buildings at Jerusalem. Solomon was so pleased 
with the fidelity of the Sidonians that he built him a 
house of cedar at Lebanon, whither he used to repair 
yearly to visit Prince H.\ The descendants of these 
zealous craftsmen furnished timber from the same moun- 
tain for the construction of the second Temple, by order 
of Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, under the guidance of 



PRINCE OP LIBANUS. 153 

Zerubbabel. This celebrated nation formed in the ear- 
liest days a college on Mount Libanus, where they held 
their meetings, and worshipped the S.\ Gr.\ Architect of 
the Universe. We are indebted to these Patriarchs for 
much of the knowledge we possess of the mysteries of 
this degree. ******* 




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THE TWENTY-THIRD DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE, AND THE FIFTH GRADE OF THE 
FIFTH SERIES. 

The tapestry of this Lodge is white, sustained by red 
and black columns, arranged in pairs, and at such dis- 
tances as the taste of the architect may suggest. The 
E.\ end of the hall, divided from the rest by a balustrade 
and red curtains, is termed the S.\ ; in it is a throne 
elevated on a platform of seven steps, before the throne 
is an altar covered with red ; on the altar a Bible and 
a poniard. Above the throne is the Ark of Alliance, 
surrounded with rays, — on either side a representation 
of the sun and moon. Above the Ark of Alliance is a 
glory, in the centre of which is the holy four-letter Name. 
On the right of the first columns and a little in front of it, 
is the altar for sacrifices ; and on the left, that for incense. 
In the W.*. are two candlesticks of five branches, each 
in the form of a pyramid; in the E.\ one with two 
branches. 

OFFICERS. 

The presiding officer is termed Sovereign Grand Sacri- 
fice^ the two wardens, High Priests; the other brethren, 
Levites. The Lodge is designated a hierarchy. 

CLOTHING. 
The Grand Sacrificer wears a long red robe ; over this 
is worn a yellow one, shorter than the first, and without 



CHIEF OF THE TABERNACLE. 157 

sleeves; lie wears a mitre formed of golden tissue, in 
front of which is a red Delta with the ineffable characters. 
Over his dress, and passing from left to right, is a black 
scarf, trimmed with silver fringe, with a red rosette at 
the bottom, from which is suspended a poniard. The 
"Wardens or High Priests wear the same costume, with the 
exception of the Delta on the front of the mitre. The 
Levites are clothed in white robes, over which passes 
a scarlet sash trimmed with gold fringe j at the bottom 
is a black rosette, to which is suspended a golden censer. 
Apron, — white, lined with scarlet and trimmed with 
crimson, blue, and purple ribbons. On the apron, in the 
centre, is painted or embroidered a golden candlestick 
with seven branches, on the flap a spray of myrtle, with 
a violet-colored blossom. Jewel, — a pot of incense. 

HOUR OF OPENING. 

The instant of the coming of the Children of H.\ to 
the sacrifice. 

OPENING. 



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HOUR TO CLOSE. 
The instant of the consummation of the sacrifice. 

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THE TWENTY-FOURTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE, AND THE SIXTH DEGREE OF THE 
FIFTH SERIES. 

DECORATIONS AND TITLES. 

There are two apartments. The first, which immediately 
precedes the second, is termed the vestibule. It is 
adorned with a crowned compass extended to 60 degrees, 
and a platform of seven steps, on which is a golden urn. 
The second room is of a circular form, and has forty-nine 
lights. The decorations of this room vary during the 
ceremony of initiation. In the centre of the room is a 
candlestick with seven branches, beside which is a naked 
heart. 

The Lodge is called a Hierarchy ; the Master is styled 
Most Powerful. There are three Wardens, entitled 
Powerful, stationed in the S.\, W.\, and N.\ . 

CLOTHING. 
A blue silk robe, with a falling collar embellished with 
golden rays ; the body of the dress strewed with golden 
stars. On the head a close crown surrounded with stars, 
and surmounted by a Delta. Order, — of crimson watered 
silk, worn from the right shoulder to the left hip. Apron, 
— white, lined with crimson • on the apron is painted or 
embroidered in red a representation of the Tabernacle; 
the flap is sky-blue. Jewel, — the letter A in gold, worn 
suspended to the bottom of the order. 



160 MANUAL. OF THE A.\ AND A. 1 . RITE. 

HOURS OF WORK. 

From the first hour of the day of the construction of 
the hierarchy to the last hour of the day of life. 

OPENING. 



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HISTORICAL LESSON. 
Exodus xxv. 



THE TWENTY-FIFTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE, AND THE SEVENTH OF THE FIFTH 
SERIES. 

Assemblies are styled * * * * * * *. 

Hangings of green drapery, supported by nine columns, 
alternately red and white. At each column is an arm or 
branch bearing nine candles, making in all eighty-one 
lights. 

The throne is placed beneath a canopy formed of red, 
white, and green. Behind the canopy a transparency of 
a triangle and three circles. Before the throne is a table 
covered with green cloth. There are arranged in the 
Lodge a crown, two arrows crossed, a lamb, and the M.\ 
S.\. The Master uses an arrow instead of a gavel; the 
feathered part of the arrow is stained green on one side 
and red on the other. The shaft is white, the head gold ; 
on the altar is a statue of Truth covered with a veil, 
composed of the three colors of the degree, red, white, 
and green. 

OFFICERS, ETC. 

1. Most Excellent Master, representing M.\, clothed 
in a long tunic of three colors, — green, white, and red ; 
he also wears a crown of lace, with nine gold points. 

2. S.\ W.\, representing A.-. 

3. J.-. W.\, representing E.\ 

4. Sacrificer; and, 5. The Guard of the Palladium. 

The Candidate represents J.-. 
162 



PRINCE OF MERCY, OR SCOTCH TRINITARIAN. 163 

CLOTHING. 

Apron, — red trimmed with white fringe. On the 
apron is painted or embroidered two arrows crossed. 
Order, — a tri-colored ribbon of red, white, and green, 
from the bottom of which the jewel of the grade is worn. 
Jewel, — a gold equilateral triangle, in the centre of which 
is a heart; on the heart the Hebrew letter H (He). 



HOUR OF WORK. 
Eventime. 

OPENING. 


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THE TWENTY-SIXTH DEGREE OP THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE, AND THE EIGHTH GRADE OP THE 
PIFTH SERIES. 

The Lodge is decorated with red and blue hangings. 
A throne in theE.-.; over the throne a transparency, re- 
presenting the B.\ B.\ ; in the centre the holy four-letter 
Name. A representation of a conical mountain, elevated 
on five steps, in the centre of the room. On the top of 
the mountain is a cross, with a serpent entwined thereon. 
At the foot of the mountain, a lamb. The Lodge is 
lighted by a single flambeau, representing the sun. As- 
semblies are styled the Court of Sinai. 

OFFICERS, ETC. 

The presiding officer is styled Most Powerful Grand 
Master, and represents M.\ There are two Wardens, 
representing A.-, and J.-., and called Ministers; an Ora- 
tor, styled Pontiff; a Secretary, called Grand Graver; 
and an Examiner. The brethren are called Knights, 
and the candidate a Traveller. 

CLOTHING. 

Apron, — white, strewed with black tears ; on the flap, 

a triangle, in a glory; in the centre the Hebrew letter 

H. Order, — a wide red ribbon, worn from the right 

shoulder to the left hip ; where it crosses the breast, the 

165 



166 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

words Virtue and Valor should be painted or em- 
broidered on it in gold. Jewel, — a serpent, entwined 
around a Tau cross, standing upon a triangle ; on it should 
be engraved the Ineffable Name. The jewel should be 
of gold, and is worn suspended to a white ribbon. 

HOURS OF WORK. 
Open at one ; close at seven. 

OPENING. 

M.-. 9. 8.-. S.-. 

LESSON. 

The pleasure of bearing the yoke of our brethren, re- 
membering that they are our equals, and that we can be 
wounded with the same arrows, should determine us in 
receiving this degree. We should be animated by the 
same Divine Spirit, to avenge our country, to make our 
mysteries respected, and support the laws of the Most 
Hi-hGod. 



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Numbers xxi. 



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THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE, AND THE NINTH GRADE OF THE 
FIFTH SERIES. 

An assembly of Commanders of the Temple is styled 
a Court, and is decorated with hangings of red on black 
columns, on each of which there is a bracket holding a 
light. In the E.\ a throne under a canopy, both of 
which are painted red and strewed with black tears. In 
the centre of the hall a chandelier with 12 + 9 + 6 (27) 
lights. The members are seated about a round table, on 
which are twenty-seven other lights. 

OFFICERS, ETC. 

The presiding officer is styled Most Potent, He is 
clothed in a white robe, over which he wears a red 
mantle lined with ermine. The Wardens are called 
Most Sovereign Commanders, and the members Sovereign 
Commanders. 

CLOTHING. 

Apron, — flesh-colored, lined and edged with black ; on 

the flap, painted or embroidered in black, a Teutonic 

cross, encircled by a crown of laurel, and on the apron 

a key. G-loves, — white, lined and edged with red. Collar, 

— white, bordered with red; on its two sides are the 

four crosses of the Commanders, embroidered in red. 

Jewel, — a gold triangle, upon which is engraved the holy 
163 



COMMANDER OF THE TEMPLE. 169 

four-letter Name. The jewel is worn suspended to the 
collar. Order, — a broad red ribbon, edged with black, 
worn from the right shoulder to the left hip, to which is 
suspended the cross of the order (a Teutonic cross of 
enamelled gold). 

HOURS OF WORK. 
Open at ten ; close at four. 

OPENING. 



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" Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song 
unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the 
Lord; for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and 
his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my 
strength and song, and he is become my salvation ; he is 
my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my 
Father's God, and I will exalt him." Ex. xv. 1 ; 2. 



THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DEGREE OP THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE, AND THE TENTH GRADE OP THE 
PIPTH SERIES. 

Assemblies of this grade are styled Councils. The 
Council Chamber is illuminated in the E.\ by a trans- 
parency representing the sun, placed within a triangle 
inscribed in a circle : in each angle of the triangle is the 
letter S.\ Near the centre of the room is a large glass 
globe filled with pure water. 

OFFICERS, ETC. 

The presiding officer is styled A.*., and wears an au- 
rora-colored robe, a turban on his head, and a sceptre in 
his hand. The sceptre is gilt, with a golden globe on the 
end of it. He also wears around his neck a gold chain, 
to which is suspended a golden sun. On the reverse of 
the sun is a globe. There is but one other officer, who 
represents the S.\ W.\, the M.\ of C.\, and the Orator. 
He is styled Bro. T.\, and is seated in the W.\, hold- 
ing in his hand a white sceptre, with a golden eye on the 
end of it. A Council consists of seven members, styled 
CC.\ If more than this number are present, the addi- 
tional brethren, to the number of five, are styled SS.\ 

The CC.\ wear a sash of white watered ribbon across 
the body, to which is suspended the jewel of the order; 

* This degree is of great antiquity, and was anciently the 
last degree of initiation. — Ragon. 



172 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.\ RITE. 

on the bottom of the sash an eye is painted or em- 
broidered. 

The SS.\ wear a short tunic, a brown apron, and a 
blue cap. The cap is tied with an aurora-colored ribbon. 

Jewel, — a golden triangle, with rays ; in the centre an 
eye. 

During the reception no jewel or apron is worn 

Hour to open, — Midnight upon earth, but here the 
sun is at high meridian. 

OPENING. 



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TO CLOSE. 

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knowledge of heavenly truth, which is the pure source 
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KNIGHT OF ST, ANDREW. 

THE TWENTY-NINTH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE, AND THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF THE 
FIFTH SERIES. 

An assembly of Knights of St. Andrew is styled a 
Grand Lodge. The hangings are red, supported by 
white columns. The seats of the Master and Wardens 
are draped with red cloth trimmed with gold fringe; 
those of the other Knights are blue, with silver fringe. 

A cross of St. Andrew is placed in each corner of 
the room, and immediately in front of each of these are 
four lights, making sixteen lights in all. The whole 
number of lights required is 16 -f 2, -f 7 X 9 (81) ; 
two on the triangular altar, seven groups of nine each, 
and sixteen before mentioned. 

OFFICERS, ETC. 

The Master is styled Patriach; and the members, Re- 
spectable Masters. The clothing is a scarlet robe, and 
a sash of the same color, worn across the body ; on the 
sash is a red and green rosette, from which hangs the 
jewel. Girdle, — white silk, with gold fringe. A green 
collar trimmed with red is sometimes worn in place of 
the scarf. The jewel is a compass within three triangles 
which are enclosed in a large one, beneath which is a 



PATRIARCH OF THE CRUSADES. 175 

square reversed, with a poniard in the angle; when the 
collar is worn, the jewel is a St. Andrew's cross, sur- 
mounted by a crown; at the junction or centre of the 
cross the letter J.-., enclosed in a triangle within a circle; 
from the circle depends a key ; on the extremities of the 
cross are the letters B.\ T.\ M.\ N.- 



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KNIGHT OP THE WHITE AND BLACK EAGLE. 

THE THIRTIETH DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE, AND THE TWELFTH GRADE OF THE 
FIFTH SERIES. 

In this degree five apartments are used. The first, 
called H.\ of the E.\, or C.\ of the J.-., is hung with 
black, and lighted by a triangular lamp suspended from 
the ceiling. The second apartment, called C.\ of K.\, 
represents a cavern, is draped with black, and in the 
centre of the room is a tomb ******* 
The first and second apartments are connected together 
by a long passage. 

The third apartment, styled the H.\ of the C.\, or 
Areopagus, is decorated with white and red hangings, and 
lighted by nine lights. In the E.\ is a throne. A black 
veil or curtain stretched across the room in front of the 
throne separates the E.\ from the rest of the apartment. 

In front of the veil is an altar ; on it are two crossed 
swords, Holy Bible, square, compasses, and a dagger; near 
the altar is a * . * * * * * *, draped with black. 
The fourth apartment is a long room, furnished and de- 
corated so as to represent natural scenery * * * *. 

The fifth apartment, styled the S.\, is decorated with 
red hangings, and lighted by nine lights. A throne in 



180 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE. 

the E.\, covered with a canopy of black and white velvet, 
ornamented with red Teutonic crosses ; above it a crowned 
double-headed eagle, with wings extended, a two-edged 
sword in his talons, and a black ribbon around his neck, 
from which is suspended the cross of the order ; on his 
breast is an equilateral triangle ; on it Adonai in Hebrew 
characters, and around it the inscription, "Nee proditor, 
nee proditur, innocens feret." Behind the throne are 
the three banners of the Order, — one white, on it a 
green cross, with the inscription "The Will of God;" 
another of green, having on one side a red Teutonic 
cross, and on the other a double-headed black eagle, 
around it the motto, "Victory or Death," embroidered in 
silver; the third is the ancient Beauseant, or war-banner 
of the Templars, — half black and half white. This 
banner is also used in the fourth apartment. 

OFFICERS. 

The Master is styled Illustrious Grand Commander, 
and represents Frederick the Great of Prussia. He is 
seated in the E.\, and presides in the third and fifth 
apartments. The second officer is styled Grand Chan- 
cellor; he is seated on the right of the G.\ C.\, in the 
third and fifth apartments, and presides in the first, 
where he is assisted by two judges. The third officer is 
styled Grand Architect, and is seated on the left of the 
G.\ C.-. in the E.\ The fourth officer is stationed in 
the N.\, and called Grand Master of Ceremonies. In ad- 
dition to the above-named officers, there is a Grand Trea- 
surer, Grand Secretary, Grand Captain of the Guards, 
and Expert Brother. 



ELECTED KNIGHT OF KADOSH. 181 

CLOTHING. 

A wjiite woollen cloak, with a red cross on the left 
breast'; a white cap, with gold band and white and black 
plumes; a sword; and a dagger, with an ebony and ivory 
handle, worn in the sword-belt, on the left side. An an- 
cient chivalric dress, consisting of a full suit of armor, 
helmet, shield, battle-axe, etc., may be appropriately used 
instead of the above. The Knights, when not in full 
dress, are clothed in black, and wear a red girdle, and 
the order, — a broad black ribbon; on it in front, em- 
broidered in silver, are two Teutonic crosses and a double- 
headed eagle, with the letters C.\ K.\ H.\ The order is 
worn from the left shoulder to the right hip ; from it is 
suspended a poniard. Collar, — white satin or watered 
silk; on it a red and white rosette and a gold-embroidered 
triangle, or a cross From the bottom is suspended the 
jewel, — a double-headed black eagle, with gold beaks and 
claws, and a gold sword in his talons. Other jewels 
sometimes worn are a red enamelled Teutonic cross, or a 
red enamelled cross with a mother-of-pearl medallion in 
the centre, on one side the letters J.-. M.\, and on the 
other a skull pierced with a dagger, and worn attached 
to a button-hole of the coat, on the left side, or suspended 
from the collar. 

HOUR TO OPEN. 
The hour of secrecy and silence. 

OPENING. 



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§tctyti$n. 

FIRST APARTMENT. 

******** 

SECOND APARTMENT. 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so 
also upon the earth. Give us this day our daily bread. 
And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. 
And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us from 
evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the 
glory, forever. Amen. 

******** 

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure 
of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I 
am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth, 
and mine age is as nothing before thee. Verily, every 
man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. Surely 
every man walketh in a vain show j surely they are dis- 
quieted in vain ; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not 
who shall gather them. 

And now, Lord, what wait I for ? My hope is in thee. 
Deliver me from all my transgressions ; make me not the 
reproach of the foolish. I was dumb ; I opened not my 
mouth, because thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away 
from me : I am consumed with the blow of thine hand. 
When thou with rebuke dost correct man for iniquity, 
thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth. 
Surely every man is vanity. Selah. 

Hear my prayer, Lord, and give ear unto my cry ; 



ELECTED KNIGHT OF KADOSH. 183 

hold not thy peace at my tears ; for I am a stranger with 
thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. Oh, spare 
me, that I may recover strength before I go hence and 
be no more. Ps. xxxix. 4-13. 

HISTORICAL LESSON. 



PRAYER. 

O thou eternal, beneficent, and gracious Lord our G-od ! 
We from the secret depths of our hearts offer thee a 
living sacrifice. We pray thee, fill our hearts with thy 
love, and the love we should have for one another. We 
are brethren, journeying the rough and rugged path of 
life to that bourn whence no traveller returns. We 
humbly beseech thee, heavenly Father, to inspire our 
enemies with a just sense of the evils they have done 
us, and a conviction of their wrong-doings, that they may 
make atonement for their manifest injuries and injustice, 
which it doth not belong to us to redress of ourselves ; 
for thou, Lord, hast said, " Vengeance is mine; I will 
repay." That, their eyes being opened, we may become 
reconciled and, by a hearty union, take possession of 
those blessed lands where thy Temple was established, 
and where thou hast said, "I will dwell ;" where we 
may be gathered together in one fold — a band of brothers, 
— there to celebrate thy great and holy Name, and on thy 
holy mountain celebrate thy praise. Amen. 



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INVESTITURE. 



HISTORY. 

This Grade is so closely connected with the Order of 
Knights Templar that the history of that Order is the 
16* 



186 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE. 

history of K-h. The 31st and 3 2d degrees may he ap- 
propriately regarded as the second and third sections of the 
grade of K-h. 

The religious and military Order of Knights Templar 
was founded in the beginning of the twelfth century* by 
Hugh de Payens, Godfrey de St. Adehnar, and seven 
other French knights, for the purpose of protecting the 
pilgrims visiting the Holy Land, and for the protection 
of the Holy Sepulchre. The knights were encouraged 
by the Abbot of Jerusalem, who assigned them a resi- 
dence adjoining the Church of the Holy Temple. f In 
the ninth year after the organization of the Order, it 
was taken under the protection of Pope Honorius II., 
by whom, at the request of Stephen, Patriarch of Jeru- 
salem, it was ordained that they should be clothed in 
white, and a rule and manner of life laid down for 
them by St. Bernard,^ entitled " The Rule of the Poor 
Fellow-Soldiers of Jesus Christ, of the Temple of Solo- 
mon ;" and they were thenceforward known as Knights 
Templar. To the time of and during the first Crusade 
their ceremonies and * * * * had been the same 
ag * * # * * *. w hen, previous to the second 
Crusade, becoming united with the ***** 
Masons, their ritual was changed, and Pope Eusebius III. 
ordained that a "blood-red cross" should be worn by 
them upon the left breast of the white woollen tunic with 
which they were clothed. 

The Order increased rapidly in numbers and power, 
and for nearly two hundred years formed the most re- 
nowned Christian troops that fought for the redemption 
of the Holy Land. They extended over all Europe, and 



f Addison, pp. 6-10. % Ibid. pp. 15-26. 



ELECTED KNIGHT OF KADOSH. 187 

had coinmanderies for initiation in every Christian nation. 
After the expulsion of the Christians from Palestine, in 
1192, Cyprus became their principal asylum. Their own 
revenues supported their military power, and an admis- 
sion to the order was considered an honor by princes and 
noblemen. Philip IV., King of France, having quar- 
relled with Pope Boniface VIII. , the Templars espoused 
the cause of the Pope, in opposition to the Knights of 
Malta, who declared for the king. 

Being exasperated at the course taken by the Tem- 
plars, Philip, from a desire for revenge, and from cupidity, 
— his treasury having become depleted by extravagance 
and war, — determined upon the annihilation of the Order, 
and the confiscation to his own coffers of at least a part 
of their immense wealth. 

No opportunity, however, occurred for him to carry 
out his designs until the death of Pope Boniface. After 
the death of that Pontiff, the cardinals assembled for the 
election of the successor of Boniface, and through the 
machinations of Philip IV. found themselves divided into 
two factions, French and Italian. By a sinuous in- 
trigue, eventually the cardinals were all brought to 
consent to the election of that person to the papal chair 
whom Philip should recommend. Whereupon he sent 
for Bertrand de Goth, Archbishop of Bordeaux, whom he 
informed in a private conference of the power he had re- 
ceived of nominating a successor to Pope Boniface VIII. , 
and agreed to prefer him provided he would bind him- 
self to perform seven conditions. The archbishop — a 
vain, selfish man, who would hesitate at nothing to gratify 
his ambition — accepted the offer, and took an oath on 
the Sacrament for the performance of the conditions; 



188 MANUAL OF THE A.". AND A.\ RITE. 

after which Philip made known to him six of the con- 
ditions, but reserved the seventh until after the arch- 
bishop's accession to the papal chair, which, upon the 
recommendation of the king, soon took place ; and Ber- 
trand de Goth was crowned as Pope, under the name of 
Clement V. Some time after the coronation the king 
made known to him the seventh article, viz. : that he 
must join him in the extermination of the Knights 
Templar and the confiscation of their estates. To ac- 
complish this, they caused two unprincipled men to seek 
admission into the Order, who, when admitted, were to 
make certain accusations against the Order. 

The admission was sought and easily accomplished, 
as their standing with the king gave them position at 
court and an apparently high standing. After their ad- 
mission they accused the whole Order of the most dread- 
ful crimes, and desired to be separated from them on 
account of the execrable things they suggested. In 
consequence of these accusations, many of the Knights 
Templar in France and other parts of the Pope's spiritual 
dominions were burned at the stake as relapsed heretics,* 
after being imprisoned and tortured to make them con- 
fess themselves guilty of the crimes with which they 
had been charged. The Templars bore these horrible 
tortures with heroic fortitude, and persisted to the last 
in asserting their innocence. In the year 1312 Pope 
Clement V. issued his bull for the provisional suppres- 
sion of the Order of Knights Templar, placed the 
Order under the ban of excommunication, and at the same 
time gave their possessions to the Knights of Malta. 
Peter de Bologna, G-rand Prelate of the Order,f and 

* Addison, pp. 239-241. f Ancient MSS. 



ELECTED KNIGHT OE KADOSH. 189 

many other eminent and distinguished knights ; escaped 
the fate designed for them by King Philip and his 
coadjutors, and, being Ancient Craft Masons, sought 
a peaceful asylum within the portals of the Mystic 
Temple located in Scotland, where, under the protection 
of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, — having assisted in 
placing that monarch upon the throne, — they were per- 
mitted to live in security ; and a new and more perfect 
union of the two Orders took place ****** 
********^ an( j the Order of Knights 
Templar became incorporated with that of Masonry * * 

Others of the Knights of the Temple sought refuge 
with the Teutonic Order, which had been established 
on the model of the statutes of the Templars, and then 
had its principal seat in what is now called Prussia.* 



HOUR TO CLOSE. 
The break of day. 



* C. L. Woodbury. 



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OEDEE OF FIVE BEETHEEtf, 

THE THIRTY-FIRST DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND AC- 
CEPTED RITE, AND THE THIRTEENTH GRADE OF THE 
FIFTH SERIES. 

This degree is an administrative grade, and constitutes 
the second section of K-h and the first of the next 
grade, in connection with which it is always conferred. 

The Lodge is styled a Sovereign Tribunal, and is de- 
corated with white hangings supported on eight gilded 
columns. i 

OFFICERS. 

The presiding officer is styled Most Perfect President; 
the Wardens, Inspectors ; the Secretary, Chancellor ; and 
the members, Most Enlightened. 

CLOTHING. 

Xo apron is worn in the Sovereign Tribunal. When 
the members visit lodges of inferior degrees, they wear a 
white apron, on the top of which is embroidered the 
cross of a Teutonic Knight. A white collar is also worn, 
on which is a triangle, with the number 31 in the centre, 
in Arabic figures. In lodges of inferior grades, instead 
of the collar a gold chain, representing the emblems of 



192 MANUAL OP THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

Masonry, is worn, from which is suspended the cross of 
the Order. Jewel, — a silver Teutonic cross. 

OPENING. 



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N.-. K.-. M.-. K.-. 







THE THIRTY-SECOND DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND 
ACCEPTED RITE, THE FOURTEENTH GRADE OF THE 
FIFTH SERIES, AND THE LAST CONFERRED IN A 
GRAND CONSISTORY OF S.\ P.\ R.\ S.\ 

The assembly is called a Sovereign Consistory of 
S.\ P.*. R.\ S.\, and should be held in an elevated 
place. During a reception the same number of apart- 
ments are used as in K-h. The hall of the C.\ is de- 
corated with white and red hangings.* In the E.\ a 
throne, elevated on seven steps, under a rich canopy; 
above the canopy the letters N.\ K.\ M.\ K.\, em- 
broidered in gold. In the W.\, on the same platform, 
are two smaller thrones, under separate canopies, in front 
of each of which is a table covered with crimson cloth, 
trimmed with silver, edged with black, and on the front 
of the cover, embroidered in silver, the letters N.*. K.\ 
M.\ K.\ On the tables are a balance, laws, crossed 
swords, and jewel of the degree. A railing or balustrade 
separates the hall into two parts, E.\ and W.\ In the 
TV.-, is the tracing-board. 

OFFICERS. 

The Master is styled Illustrious Gv. S.\ of S.\, or 
Sovereign Grand Commander, and represents Frederick 

* In Carson's Monitor the hangings are described as "black 
strewed with tears, etc." 

195 



196 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.-. RITE. 

the Great of Prussia. He is seated on the throne in the 
E.\, clothed in the modern costume of royalty, before 
him a table, on which are a sceptre, balance, etc. The 
Wardens, representing P.-. of E.\, are seated on thrones 
in the W.\, and are styled Illustrious Lieutenant Grand 
Commanders. 

The other officers are, — an I.-. G.\ Minister of State, 
stationed on the right, and an I.-. G.\ Chancellor, on the 
left, in front of the E.\. The Valiant G.-. Secretary on 
the right, and the V.-. G.\ Treasurer on the left, in front 
of the M.\ S.\. The V.-. Grand Architect in the S.-.j 
the V.-. G.\ Standard-Bearer on the right, in front of 
the L.\ G.\ C.\ in the W.\; a V.\ G.\ Captain of the 
Guards, and a V.\ G.\ Master of Ceremonies in the N.\ ; 
an Expert Brother, the Sentinel, and two Guards * * *. 
The officers are clothed as P.-. of E.\, or in the full 
dress of K-h, without aprons, and all armed with sword, 
dagger, and buckler. The rest of the P.-. are clothed as 
in K-h, with same order and jewel as in that grade. 
Apron, — white, lined and trimmed with red; on the flap 
is a red cross edged with silver; in the centre is the 
tracing-board, or plan of the encampment, the form of 
which is a nonagon, within which is inscribed a heptagon, 
within the heptagon a pentagon, within the pentagon an 
equilateral triangle, and within the triangle a circle. 
The form of the T.\ B.\ refers to the mystic numbers 
3 -f- 5 -(- 7 -J- 9. On the sides of the pentagon, in the 
space between the heptagon and pentagon, are five 
standards,— U.-., G.-., N.\, E.-., T.-. The standard T.\ 
is purple; on it the Ark of Alliance, embroidered in 
gold, with the motto, "Jjaus Deo." The standard E.\ is 
azure ; on it is painted a golden lion, with a key in his 



SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET. 197 

mouth and a collar about his neck. Motto, " Ad majo- 
rem Dei gloriam." The standard N.\ is white; its de- 
vice, a flaming heart, with wings; above it a laurel wreath. 
The standard Gr.\ is green; on it a crowned double- 
headed eagle, having a sword in the right talon, and a 
bleeding heart in the left. The standard U.\ is of golden 
yellow; its device is a bull. On the sides of the nonagon, 
representing the divisions of the Masonic army, are nine 
tents, with flags; 'on the angles are nine pennons; each 
pennon is of the same color as the flag of the tent that 
precedes it. These pennons are designated by letters 
arranged from right to left, as follows: — I, N, 0, N, X, 
I, L, A, S. 

Tent I, named E.\, represents the three symbolic 
degrees ; colors, — blue. 

Tent N, named J.-., represents the Perfect Masters; 
colors, — green. 

Tent 0, named A.-:, represents the I.*, of the B.\ and 
the I.*. S.\; colors, — red and green. 

Tent N, named J.-., represents the Provost and Judges; 
colors, — checkered red and black. 

Tent X, named P.-., represents the Gr.\ M.\ A.-, and 
the M.\ E.\ of JST.\ ; colors,— black. 

Tent I, named J.-., represents the S.\ K.\ E.\ and 
M.\ E.\ of F.\; colors, — black and red. 

Tent L, named N.\, represents the Gv. E.\ P.-. and 
S.\ M.'.j colors,' — red. 

Tent A, named Z.\, represents the Knights of the E.\ 
or Sword ; colors, — light green. 

Tent S, named M.\, represents the P.-. of Rose-Croix, 
K.\ of the E.\ and AY.-., and P.-. of J.-. ; colors, — white, 
spotted with red. 



198 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE. 

HOUR OF DEPARTURE. 
The fifth hour after sunset. 

OPENING. 



J .TJl 



******** 

CHARGE* 

You have now attained the third or highest grade 
of the Order of Kadosh, Knight of the White and Black 
Eagle, under the title of "Sublime Prince of the Royal 
Secret/' 

If not in the field of battle, you have it in your power, 
in your intercourse with the world and your Masonic 
brethren, to exemplify the duties of a true Knight of 
the Cross. Be clothed with the shield of faith, the 
helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, and 
the sword of the Spirit, which is God's holy word. 

Notwithstanding the spiritual explanations given to 
this degree, it is still maintained that, should the con- 
tingency which was alluded to in the first part of the 
degree of Kadosh, or any of a like character, occur in 
reference to the enemies of the Knights of the Temple 
and of the Free Masons, the Princes of the Royal Secret 
are bound to join the standand of these knights. 

* This beautiful charge is from the pen of our late Illustrious 
Bro. Giles Fonda Yatea. 



SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET. 199 

The original design of this grade was to invade the 
Holy Land and deliver it from the sway of the infidels. 
This was to be effected by the union of the Free Masons 
of the Ancient and Accepted Rite in one grand army 
under one Commander-in-Chief, and proceeding to the 
conquest of the Holy Land and wresting it from the in- 
fidels. Hence this degree has more of a military aspect 
than any other. The draft contains the plan of this 
grand army; which is depicted on the area of the apron 
of this degree. Hence there are countersigns for every 
day of the week. The triple passwords refer to the 
separation of the brethren, scattered over the face of 
the earth, their reunion under one Grand Commander, 
and the object of this reunion, the visiting of retribution 
upon the infidels. 

Every brother who seriously reflects upon the subject, 
who duly considers the incidents on which the three 
grades he has now passed through have been founded, 
and the duties that have been inculcated, will discover 
the hey to the Royal Secret. To use that key with effect, 
there is a lion in the way, difficulties and dangers are 
imminent. Indeed, the Royal Secret is symbolized by 
"a lion with a key in its mouth." We hence derive the 
phrase "key of initiation." The investigating brother 
will perceive that the Royal Secret resolves itself into 
this, that the true mysteries of religion have been pre- 
served b} r the Masonic fraternity. We can demon- 
strate that Freemasonry is a succession of the ancient 
mysteries, and that these mysteries were nothing else 
than the religion of our Saviour Jesus Christ. He was 
a reformer of the primitive religion, and did not profess 
to introduce a new religion. Hence it follows as aeon 



200 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

sequence that Freemasonry is the same religion which 
has constantly opposed the materialism of idolatry, but 
which, with the same constancy, has refused to admit 
the mystic dogmas, that superstition and higotry, or the 
misguided enthusiasm of some ardent souls, were care- 
fully watching to introduce and have in some instances 
succeeded in engrafting upon the evangelical tree. 

It will, perhaps, be said that the mysteries are ad- 
mitted to contain the real object of the society, which 
was established for the worship of the true God, and the 
preaching of the doctrines of salvation to a sinful world, 
yet for this very reason the secret meeting of the 
mystic brethren became useless. We acknowledge the 
full force of this objection. But who is ignorant that 
the Catholic religion contended against paganism for 
more than three centuries, and that paganism was the 
prevailing religious worship, and that this contest was 
maintained against innumerable persecutions, which oc- 
curred in arousing this religion and bringing it into 
notice ? It was then, and has since been, an enigma 
that the religion of the Prince of Peace should have 
been established by the sworcl. Who does not see that 
it was necessarily a secret for a long time before it could 
indulge even tolerance, — in fact, even until the period 
when Constantine placed it upon his throne ? 

Moses, educated in Egypt, in the court of the Pha- 
raohs, doubtless instructed and initiated into all the 
Egyptian mysteries, was the first who established the 
public worship of the Grod of the initiated, of the true 
and only G-od, the Creator and Preserver of all things. 
His Decalogue is the same as the laws of the initiated; 
his physics (natural philosophy) were the same as those' 



SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET. 201 

taught in the temple of Memphis. But the law of Moses 
was only an imperfect essay on the application of those 
principles. The day had not yet arrived when they 
could become the universal religion, called from this cir- 
cumstance Catholic. Our design does not permit us to 
enter into a discussion of the causes which have prevented 
Judaism from making proselytes, and which has ex- 
tended the true religion beyond the pale of the house 
of Israel. But in the lapse of time it is well known that 
it has thus extended; and not only one family and one 
people, but all the families and all the peoples of the 
earth, are invited to participate in its mysteries. 

We could also demonstrate that not only did the wor- 
ship of idols lose its credit, and became eventually and 
absolutely forgotten, but philosophy and the arts became, 
developed to the comprehension and understanding of 
the common people, through the means of the ancient 
mysteries and the manner in which they were cultivated. 
The initiation was divided into many stages, grades, or 
degrees. The candidate was, step by step, instructed in 
knowledge that was new to him, but with the precaution 
not suddenly to refute or contradict the prejudices of his 
education. It was required that he should have the 
government of age over his passions, — that he should 
receive no instruction on any given point, unless he was 
first fully convinced of its reasonableness, — that he should 
never lend his belief upon the mere authority of any 
man without the reasons for his belief. Before the truth 
was discovered to him, he was instructed in human 
sciences, which at that period were closely locked up in 
the sanctuary of the temples. After close application to 
studies for three years or more, the candidate was con- 



202 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.\ RITE. 

ducted to the interior, or more secret parts, of the templo, 
where truth, the end and chief object of the initiation, 
was fully revealed to him. The initiated looked down 
with silent indignation upon idolatry, whose errors were 
completely known to them; and thus it happened that 
in society, or in public, they, to appearance, paid respect 
to the established worship of the government under 
which they lived, and submitted to its laws, which was 
an apparent condescension to opinions they could not 
combat openly, without danger. Thus was true Free- 
masonry extended in secret and under a veil. 

The ancient initiation was, then, the true religion of 
God, which could not be fully understood or duly ap- 
preciated without some knowledge of the works of nature 
and of nature's God. "The heavens declare his glory, 
and the firmament showeth the work of his hands/' as 
well as this beautiful earth which we inhabit. "Day 
unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth 
knowledge." 

This true religion is the same which hath justly been 
denominated Catholic, because universal and revealed, or 
ought to be, to all nations. It is the religion which was 
first publicly taught by Moses, communicated to the 
Grand Elect Master Masons of divers peoples other than 
the Jewish, employed in the erection of the first temple, 
and by Zorobabel at the second temple, and which was 
afterwards preached by St. John, and was the same 
religion taught by Christ, who "came not to destroy 
the law, but to fulfil it." Yes, the Christian religion 
originated from ancient Freemasonry as it was in its 
primitive simplicity and purity, and this holy religion is 
that which it was the province of pure and un defiled 



SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET. 203 

Freemasonry to preserve and guard with care in its 
temples. Clemens, Justin Martyr, and other ancient 
Christian patriarchs pronounced these mysteries "august 
and worthy of all veneration." Let us not slight them. 

"We can also demonstrate that, until the forms of wor- 
ship were established by the ecclesiastical hierarchy, 
very thing in the Christian religion took its origin from 

1 usages and rituals of the initiated who were the 
predecessors of the Freemasons. The gospel (or good 
news), that work of the sweetest and purest morals, that 
truly divine book, was the book of the laws, rules, and 
regulations for the initiated, and it is the rule and guide 
of the Freemasons. 

The Christian Knights engaged in the holy wars 
formed with the Freemasons a league for mutual pro- 
tection and for the preservation and perpetuation of the 
holy mysteries. Owing to the persecutions of the Knights 
of the temple, and the Masonic Brethren, so called, of 
the first and second temple (or Hiramites), by the 
authority of the Roman Catholic Church, the credit and 
honor of this preservation and perpetuation devolved 
almost exclusively on the Protestant Freemasons. The 
example set by Philip the Fair, of France, has been fol- 
lowed by many despotic civil rulers on the continent of 
Europe, as well as by ecclesiastical authorities of both 
the Catholic and Protestant churches of modern days, in 
every part of the civilized world ; and hence the true 
Masonic as well as true Christian doctrine has developed 
itself and is symbolized by the grades you have recently 
passed through and been instructed in ; while it shows 
in prominent relief the ignorance and antichristian spirit 
and doctrine of our enemies. 



204 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 

You, my Brother, as a Knight of Kadosh, and a I'rince 
of the Royal Secret, are the sworn enemy of all bigotry 
and superstition, as well as of all the passions and vices 
which disgrace human nature; covetousness, thefts, mur- 
ders, perjuries, lies, malice, envyings, slanders, and the 
like, all which passions and vices you are to treat as your 
enemies, fight against and conquer them, and practise 
all the works of charity and mercy; cultivate chastity, 
modesty, and candor, sweetness of temper, patience, and 
fortitude, and to prize truth and fidelity to the cause of 
Christ, more than life itself, — to fight manfully the good 
fight of faith under the Captain of your salvation, and 
never desert the standard of virtue and true religion; that 
you will spurn slavery to any and every sin, pride and 
vain boastings, and all hatred and deceit, and espouse the 
cause of true Christian liberty, equality, and universal 
brotherhood. 

Remember your motto as a S.\ P. - . of the R.\ S.\ 
***** May you be enabled in sincerity, with 
the Psalmist of old (Ps. xci.), to "say of the Lord, He is 
my refuge and my fortress, my God; in him will I trust." 
He is the redoubtable Eagle, who " shall cover" those 
who thus trust him "with his feathers, and under his 
wings shall they trust. His truth shall be their shield 
and buckler, with their eyes shall they behold and see 
the reward of the wicked. They shall tread upon the 
lion and the adder, the young Hon and the dragon shall 
they trample under feet. Because they have set their 
love upon him, therefore will he deliver them. He will 
set them on high, because they have known his name. 
They shall call upon him, and he will answer them. He 
will be with them in trouble; he will deliver them and 



SUBLIME PRINCE OE THE ROYAL SECRET. 205 

honor them. With long life will he satisfy them, and 
show them his salvation ." 

"The Lord G-od, to whom vengeance belongeth, will 
show himself," and "render unto the enemies of the 
righteous a recompense according to the work of their 
hands," and "the enemies of the Lord shall perish, and 
the workers of iniquity shall be scattered." 



$0wmp (&xmft $M\mtM-(&mml 

THE THIRTY-THIRD AND LAST DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT 
AND ACCEPTED SOVEREIGN RITE. 

The assembly is styled a Supreme Council, only one 
of which is allowed in any country, except in the United 
States, where two are allowed. In the N.\ M.\ J.*, of 
the United States, the Supreme Council has control over 
all the grades of the Ancient and Accepted Rite from S.\ 
M.\ to S.\ P.-. R.\ S.\ inclusive. 

DECORATIONS. 

Hangings, purple ; with skeletons, death's heads, cross- 
bones, etc., painted or embroidered thereon. In the E.\ 
a magnificent throne; over it a purple canopy, trimmed 
with gold. Beneath the canopy is a transparency, re- 
presenting a delta, in the centre of which are seen the 
ineffable characters. Near the centre of the room is a 
quadrangular pedestal, covered with scarlet cloth, on 
which rests the Holy Bible, covered with a naked sword. 
On the left of the pedestal is placed the white banner of 
the Order. Over the interior portion of the entrance is 
a blue scarf, bearing the device Deus Meumque Jus. 
In the E.\ is a candlestick with five branches; in the 
West, one with three branches ; in the North, one with 
a single branch ; and in the South, another with two ; 
1 + 2 + 3 + 5 (11) lights. 



SOVEREIGN GRAND INSPECTOR-GENERAL. 209 

OFFICERS. 

The Master, seated in the E.\, is styled Most Puissant 
Sovereign Grand Commander, and represents Frederick 
the Great, King of Prussia. The second officer is seated 
in the W.\, and styled Puissant Lieutenant Grand Com- 
mander. The other officers are — an Illustrious Secretary- 
General of the H.\ E.\, an Illustrious Treasurer-General 
of the H.\ E.\, an Illustrious Grand Minister of State, 
an Illustrious Grand Master of Ceremonies, an Illustrious 
Grand Captain of the Guard, an Illustrious Grand Mar- 
shal, and an Illustrious Grand Standard-Bearer. The 
members of the Supreme Council are styled Sovereign 
Grand Inspectors. 

CLOTHING. 

The Most Puissant Grand Commander is clothed in a 
robe of crimson satin, bordered with white. He wears 
a royal crown, and has a naked sword in his right hand. 
The Lieutenant Grand Commander has a blue dress, a 
ducal crown, and a drawn sword. The Captain of the 
Guards wears an ancient military costume. All the 
members of the Supreme Council wear the order and 
jewel of the degree. Order, — a white watered silk 
ribbon, embroidered and fringed with gold. At the 
bottom of the order is a white, red, and green rosette. 
On the front is, embroidered in gold, a delta, surrounded 
with rays ; on two sides of the delta a poniard, directed 
towards the centre, in which are the figures 33, in Arabic 
characters. The order is worn from left to right. On 
the left side of the coat is worn a red Teutonic cross. 

The jewel is a large black eagle, with two heads, and 
crowned, having the wings open as if about to fly, hold- 
ing a sword in the claws. The beak, claws, and sword 



210 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.\ RITE. 

are gold. The jewel may be worn suspended from the 
order, or from a gold chain passed around the neck. 

HOURS OF WORK. 
From the time when the word of the order is given, 
until the morning sun begins to illume the Council. 



OPENING. 



M i i i m n i 

00000 000 40 



******** 
HISTORY* 

This degree, which is the chief tribunal of Masonry 
in the rite to which it belongs, was instituted in the year 
1786, under the following circumstances : — f 

By the constitutions of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, 
which were ratified on the 25th of October, 1762, the 
King of Prussia was proclaimed as its chief, with the 
title of Sovereign G-rand Inspector-G-eneral and Grand 
Commander. The higher councils and chapters could 
not be opened without his presence, or that of a sub- 
stitute appointed by him. All the transactions of the 
Consistory of the thirty-second degree, then the highest, 
required his sanction, or that of his substitute; and various 
other Masonic prerogatives were attached to his office. 

No provision had, however, been made in the con- 
stitutions for his successor ; and, as it was absolutely 
necessary that some arrangements should be made by 

* Post, 219^-222. f Dalcho-Mackey. 



SOVEREIGN GRAND INSPECTOR-GENERAL. 211 

which the supreme power should not become extinct at 
his death, the king established the thirty-third degree, 
out of the possessors of which the Supreme Council is 
formed, — a body possessing all the Masonic rights and 
prerogatives formerly exercised by the King of Prussia. 

Not more than one Supreme Council can exist in a 
nation, — except in the United States of America, where two 
are allowed, — and it must be composed of nine members, 
called Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General, five of whom, 
at least, must profess the Christian religion. Not less than 
three constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 

In 1765, the Lodges and Councils of the Superior de- 
grees having been extended throughout the continent 
of Europe, Frederick II., King of Prussia, as Grand Com- 
mander of the Order of Princes of the Royal Secret, was 
acknowledged as the head of the Scotch rite. The Duke 
of Sudermania was his deputy in Sweden, and Louis of 
Bourbon in France. 

On the 25th of October, 1762, the Grand Masonic 
Constitutions were finally ratified in Berlin, and pro- 
claimed for the government of all Masonic bodies, work- 
ing under the A.*, and A.-, rite, over the two hemispheres. 

In the same year, they were transmitted to Stephen 
Morin, who had been appointed, in August, 1761, In- 
spector-General for the New World, by the Grand Con- 
sistory of Princes of the Royal Secret, convened at Paris, 
under the Presidency of Chaillon de Joinville, Substitute- 
General of the Order. 

When 111. Bro. Morin arrived in the West Indies, he, 
agreeably to his patent, appointed a Deputy Inspector- 
General. This high honor was conferred on M. M. 
Hayes, with full powers to create others where neces- 
sary. 



212 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 

111. Bro. Hayes appointed Bro. Isaac Da Costa Deputy 
Inspector-General for the State of South Carolina, who, in 
1783, established a Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection 
in Charleston. After 111. Bro. Da Costa's death, Bro. 
Joseph Myres was appointed to succeed him, by 111. Bro. 
Hayes, who also appointed Solomon Bush Deputy In- 
spector-General for Pennsylvania, and Barend M. Spitzer, 
for Georgia; which appointments were confirmed by a 
Council of Inspectors that convened in Philadelphia on 
the 15th of June, 1781. 

On the 1st of May, 1786, the Grand Constitution of 
the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree was 
ratified by the King of Prussia, by which the Masonic 
prerogatives of Inspectors were deposited in a Council 
consisting of nine brethren in each nation. 

On the 20th of February, 1788, a Grand Council of 
Princes of Jerusalem was opened in Charleston, by 
111. Bros-. Myres, Spitzer, and A. Forst, Deputy Inspector- 
General for Virginia. 

In 1795. Colonel John Mitchell was appointed by 
Spitzer a Deputy Inspector-General, in the place of 111. 
Bro. Myres, who had removed; but he was restricted from 
acting until after Myres's death, which took place in the 
following year. 

On the 31st of May, 1801, the Supreme Council of 
the Thirty-Third Degree was opened in Charleston, with 
the high honors of Masonry, by John Mitchell and 
Frederick Dalcho, Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General, 
and in the course of the succeeding two years the whole 
number of Inspectors-General was completed. 

111. Bro. Francken, one of the Deputy Inspector-Gene- 
rals appointed by the 111. Bro. Morin, opened and duly 
constituted a Grand Lodge of Perfection in the city of 



SOVEREIGN GRAND INSPECTOR-GENERAL. 213 

Albany, State of New York 111. Bros. Samuel Stringer, 
Jer. Van Rensselaer, Peter "W. Yates, and other eminent 
and worthy Brethren, were initiated into Ineffable Ma- 
sonry, and in due time a General Council of Princes of 
Jerusalem was organized and duly opened for the State 
of New York.* 

On the 5th day of August, 1813, a Supreme Council 
was duly and lawfully established and constituted at the 
city of New York by 111. Bro. Emanuel I)e La Motta as 
the representative, and under the sanction and authority 
of the Supreme Council at Charleston. In September, 
1851, the seat of this Supreme Council was removed by 
the M.\ P.-. Gv. C.\ 111. Bro. Giles Fonda Yates to the 
city of Boston. And this, with the Supreme Council at 
Charleston, are the only recognized Councils which exist, 
or can exist, according to the Secret Constitutions, in the 
United States. 

This was the origin of the Ancient and Accepted 
Scottish Rite in the United States, of which there now 
exist two Supreme Councils, — one at Charleston, S. C, 
and another in the city of Boston, Mass.* 

* K. H. Van Rensselaer. f Mackey. 



214 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 



To the thrice Potent Grand Master, Wardens, and Bremen 
of Grand Lodge of Perfection, Greeting. 

Your petitioner, an active Master Mason of 

Lodge No. , being anxious to 

perfect himself in the knowledge of Ancient Craft Ma- 
sonry, by the cultivation of the Ineffable and Sublime 
Degrees, would respectfully solicit admission to your 
Lodge of Perfection, promising to conform himself 
strictly to its Rules and Regulations. 

He would represent that he is a member in good 
standing of Lodge, No. 

of the State of 



Fees enclosed, $_ 
Age,. 



Occupation, . 
Religion, 



Residence, 

RECOMMENDED BY 



. A.D. 18 



FORMS OP PETITIONS. 215 

To the Most Equitable Sovereign Prince, Grand Master, 
Grand H. Priest, Grand Wardens, and Princes of 
the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem, 

Greeting. 

Your petitioner, a Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime 
Master Mason, of , and a member in good 

standing of Grand Lodge of Perfection of 

, is anxious to be permitted to unite with the 
Embassy now forming, and assist in the great and glo- 
rious work of Re-edification ; and, if deemed worthy to 
be admitted a Member of your Grand Council, will ever 
strive to render judgments of truth and equity, to love 
truth, and adhere strictly to the Statutes and Regulations 
for the government of the Princes of Jerusalem. 



RECOMMENDED BY 



- A.D. 18 



To the Supreme Council of Sovereign Inspectors- General 
of the Thirty- Third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted 
Scottish Rite for the Northern Jurisdiction of the 
V. S. A., Greeting. 

Your petitioners, Knights of K — H., Knights of 
the White and Black Eagle, Inspectors, Inquisitors, Com- 
manders, and Val. and 111. Sub. Princes of the Royal 



216 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

Secret 32d Degree, active members of a Chapter of Rose- 
Croix Masons of the State of , being anxious 

to increase their knowledge of Ancient Craft Masonry, 
by the cultivation of the Sub. and Superior degrees of 
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite, would very re- 
spectfully solicit your honorable body to grant them 
powers to open a Sov. Consistory of Sub. Princes of the 
Royal Secret, and confer the degrees from that of Grand 
Pontiff to that of Knight of K — H., Insp., Inquis., 
Commander, and Sub. P.*. R.\ Secret, Knight of the 
White and Black Eagle inclusive, and transact such 
other business as may appertain to the high grade, in the 
, we pledging ourselves to conform in all 
things to the Rules and Regulations for the government 
of Consistories of Sub. P.-. Royal Secret, and abide by 
and conform to the Ancient Constitutions and Statutes 
of the Order. 

Given under our hands, at , this 

day of , 18 . 

32d. 

32d. 

32d. 

- 32d. 

32d. 

To the Supreme Council of Sovereign Inspectors- General 
of the Thirty-Third Degree of the Ancient and Accepted 
Scottish Rite for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction 
of the U. S. A., Greeting. 
Your petitioners, Knights of the East and West and 

Perfect Princes Freemasons of H.\ R.\ D.\ M.\. 



FORMS OF PETITIONS. 217 

Knights of the Eagle and Pelican of Rose-Croix, active 
members of a Lodge of Perfection and Council of Princes 
of Jerusalem of the State of , being anxious 

to increase their knowledge of Ancient Craft Masonry 
by the cultivation of the Sub. and Sup. degrees of the 
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, would respectfully 
solicit from your honorable body powers to open a Chapter 
of Rose-Croix Masons, and confer the degrees of Knight 
of the East and West, and Perfect Prince Freemason 
of H - R - D - M, Knight of the Eagle and Pelican 
under the title Rose-Croix, and transact such other busi- 
ness as may appertain to the grade, in the city of , 
we pledging ourselves to conform in all things to the 
Rules and Regulations for the government of Chapters 
of Rose-Croix, and abide by the Constitutions and Regu- 
lations of the Order. 

Given under our hands, at , this day 
of , 18 . 
,R,-.C.-. deH-R-D-M. 



[For the rules and regulations concerning the institution of 
Councils of Princes of Jerusalem and E.\ Lodges of Perfection, 
see Constitutions. For the form of petitions, the above formulas 
may be used.] 



218 MANUAL OF THE A. 1 . AND A.'. RITE. 



CONSTITUTIONS 

OF THE 

SUPREME COUNCIL, 33d, NORTHERN JURISDICTION, 

UNITED STATES, NORTH AMERICA, 

OF I860, 

As AMENDED EH ANNUAL SESSION, 1861, AT ITS GRAND EAST, 

Boston, Mass., near the C. C. of the Zenith, which 

ANSWERS TO NORTH LATITUDE 42° 21' 22". 

Devs Meumque Jus. 



INTRODUCTION. 

Past experience attests the fact, that most of the difficulties 
with which the Scottish Rite in this country has had to con- 
tend, are the result of an unwarrantable mingling of the Rite 
with other Masonic systems, and the interference of other 
Masonic powers, both foreign and domestic, within our own 
Jurisdiction. 

This Supreme Council, as the "faithful guardian of the 
sacred treasure" committed to its care, is under the highest 
obligations to preserve and transmit the Rite in its original 
integrity and purity. And hence, while recognizing and cul- 
tivating none other than the "Ancient and Accepted Scottish 
Rite," and the Constitution adopted for its government, we do 
hereby ordain and declare, that no Masonic power, professing 
and cultivating the "Ancient and Accepted Rite," or any of 
its appendant orders or degrees, can, under any pretence what- 
ever, unite with any other Masonic power, or association de- 
pending on another Rite, much less can it become a section of 
any other Masonic power; and any organized body taking 
such a step will, by that act, lose its independence and integ- 
rity, if it do not forfeit its existence. Such an act would be 



CONSTITUTIONS. 219 

in violation of the general spirit of Masonry, and tend to em- 
broil and confuse the whole order. 

As faithful advocates of the "Ancient and Accepted Scottish 
Rite," working under constitutional and lawful authority, and 
which has been recognized and acknowledged in both hemi- 
spheres for more than half a century, we are bound to regard 
as irregular and unlawful all persons claiming to be Sublime 
Freemasons, and all bodies claiming to work in the Ineffable, 
Sublime, and Superior degrees, in the United States of America, 
which do not acknowledge in their respective Jurisdictions the 
authority of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction 
of the United States, sitting at its Grand East, Charleston, 
South Carolina ; and the Supreme Council for the Northern 
Jurisdiction of the United States, sitting at its Grand East, 
Boston, Massachusetts. 

HISTORY. 

By authentic documents in the Archives of the Supreme 
Council, we find that, in 5761, Lodges, Councils, Chapters, Col- 
leges, and Consistories of Ineffable and Sublime Freemasonry 
being greatly extended throughout the continent of Europe, 
His Majesty, Frederick, King of Prussia, as Grand Commander 
of the Order of princes of the Royal Secret, was acknowledged 
by all the Craft as the Head of the Ineffable, Sublime, and 
Superior degrees of Freemasonry throughout the two hemi- 
spheres. On the 25th October, 5762, the Grand Masonic Con- 
stitutions were finally ratified in Berlin, Prussia, and pro- 
claimed throughout the world for the government of all Lodges, 
Councils, Chapters, Colleges, and Consistories of the "Ancient 
and Accepted Scottish Rite" over the surface of the two hemi- 
spheres. 

On the 27th day of August, 5761, the 111. Brother Stephen 
Morin was appointed Inspector-General over all the Lodges, 
Councils, Chapters, Colleges, and Consistories of the Ancient 
and Accepted Rite of the New World. The 111. Brother Morin, 
by patent, appointed a Deputy Inspector-General for Northern 
America: this high honor was conferred on Brother M. M 



220 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.". RITE. 

Hays, with full powers to ' create others where necessary 
Brother Hays appointed Brother Isaac Da Cosla Deputy In- 
spector-General for the State of South Carolina ; and in the 
year 5783 he established a Sub. Grand Lodge of Perfection in 
the city of Charleston, South Carolina. After the death of 
the 111. Brother Da Costa, Brother Joseph Myres was appointed 
Deputy Inspector-General in his place. 

On the 1st of May, 5786, the Grand Constitutions of the 
Supreme Council of Sov. Inspectors-General of the 33d and 
last degree were ratified, and approved by His Majesty the 
King of Prussia, who, as Grand Commander of the Order, pos- 
sessed supreme power and jurisdiction over all the Craft. In 
the new Constitution, as then ratified and approved by him, 
this high power was conferred on a Supreme Council of nine 
Brethren, one in each nation of Europe, and tico for the United 
States of America, all with the power and prerogatives, in 
their respective jurisdictions, which his Majesty individually 

On the 2 ; ith day of February, 5788, a Grand Council of 
Princes of Jerusalem was opened in due form in Charleston, 
y the 111. Brother Myres, Deputy Insp. -General for 
South Carolina; Brother B. M. Spitzer, Deputy Insp. -General 
for Georgia : and Brother A. Frost. Deputy Insp. -General for 
Virginia. On the 2d day of August. 5705, Brother Col. John 
Mitchell was made Deputy Insp. -General for South Carolina, 
in the place of Brother Spitzer. who removed from the country. 
Many brethren possessing the Eminent Degrees having ar- 
rived in the country from foreign parts, several Consistories 
of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret were opened for the 
initiation of candidates and for other purposes. On the 31st 
of May, 5801, a Supreme Council of the 33d Degree, for the 
United States of America, Avas opened in Charleston, S.C., with 
the high honors of Masonry, by the 111. Inspectors-General 
Col. John Mitchell and Frederick Dalcho ; and, in the course 
of the year 58 <2. the whole number of Inspectors-General for 
the jurisdiction was completed agreeably to the Grand Con- 
stitutions of the Order, and held jurisdiction over the whole 



CONSTITUTIONS. 221 

United States, until the year 5818, when a Supreme Council 
was opened in the city of New York for the Northern Masonic 
Jurisdiction of the United States. In 5802, warrants of Con- 
stitution were issued for the opening of Sublime Lodges of 
Perfection in Savannah, Georgia, and many other parts of the 
United States. 

Brother Francken, one of the Deputy Insp. -Generals ap- 
pointed Tby the 111. Brother Morin, opened and duly constituted 
a Grand Lodge of Perfection in the city of Albany, State of 
New York. Several very eminent and worthy Brethren were 
initiated into Ineffable Masonry, and in due time a General 
Council of Princes of Jerusalem was organized and duly 
opened for the State of New York. In the year 5797, a Chapter 
of Rose-Cross of H.\ R.\ D.\ M.\, Knight of the Eagle and 
Pelican, was instituted in the city of New York ; and in the 
year 5806, a Sovereign Consistory of Valiant and Sublime 
Princes of the Royal Secret was also organized in that city, 
under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of South Caro- 
lina, and remained so until the formation of a Supreme Council 
of Sov. Insp. -General of the 33d Degree for the Northern Ma- 
sonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America. 

This Supreme Council of Sovereign Inspectors-General of the 
33d and last degree was founded on the 5th day of August, 
5813, in the city of New York, for the "Northern Masonic 
District and Jurisdiction of the United States of America." 
It was opened with all the high honors of Masonry, by the 
Most 111. Brother E. De La Motta, Insp.-General of the 33d 
Degree, — and Special Deputy Representative from the Supreme 
Council of Charleston, S.C., — and the Hon. Brothers Daniel D. 
Tompkins, S. Simpson, J. J. J. Gourgas, Richard Riker, J. G. 
Tardy, and M. L. Peixotte, of the State of New York, and has 
been in continued and active operation from that day to the 
present time. In the year 5851, our Brother the Venerable 
Patriarch of the Order, the 111. Most P.-. Grand Commander 
J. J. J. Gourgas, resigned his station to his 111. Lieutenant, 
Brother Giles Fonda Yates, who, in September of the same 
year, opened the Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction 
ly* 



ZZZ MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.-. RITE. 

of the United States in Boston, Mass., and resigned the station 
of M.\ P.-. Grand Commander to his 111. Lieutenant, Edward 
A. Raymond, of Boston, Mass. At the same session of the 
Supreme Council, the Hon. Robert P. Dunlap, of the State of 
Maine, was instituted Lieutenant Grand Commander. The 111. 
Brothers Inspectors-General of the 33d Degree, John Christie, 
I\. II. Van Rensselaer, Giles F. Yates, and Francois Turner, 
were appointed Deputies for the Northern Jurisdiction. 



CONSTITUTIONS OF 1860. 

AMENDED IN ANNUAL SESSION, 1861. 



Article 1. 
The Supreme Council shall consist of not to exceed thirty- 
three active members; and other Sovereign Grand Inspectors- 
General, residing within the jurisdiction, shall be entitled to 
a seat in Supreme Council, and be permitted to consult and de- 
liberate on matters appertaining to the general interests of the 
Rite, except during an election of a member to fill a vacancy 
therein. 

The said thirty-three members shall be ultimately appor- 
tioned as follows : — 

Maine, two. Pennsylvania, three. 

Massachusetts, three. Ohio, three. 

New Hampshire, two. Michigan, two. 

Vermont, two. Indiana, two. 

Connecticut, two. Illinois, three. 

Rhode Island, two. Wisconsin, two. 

New York, three. Delaware, one. 

New Jersey, one. 
But for the present, and until the number now residing in 
Massachusetts shall be reduced to three, the States of Vermont, 



CONSTITUTIONS. 223 

Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Michigan, shall be entitled to only 
one member each. And in case the number of States or Ter- 
ritories subordinate to the Supreme Council shall be at any 
time increased, it shall be lawful for the Supreme Council to 
grant active membership to such States or Territories, not ex- 
ceeding one to each, and to take, from time to time, as vacancies 
may occur, the same number from such of the above-named 
States as may be deemed expedient. 

Article 2. 
The officers of the Supreme Council shall be, and rank, as 
follows : — 

The Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander. 
The Puissant Lieutenant Grand Commander. 
The 111. Secretary-General of the H. •. E. •. 
The 111. Treasurer-General of the H.\ E.\ 
The 111. Grand Minister of State. 
The 111. Grand Master of Ceremonies. 
The 111. Grand Captain of the Guard. 
The 111. Grand Marshal. 
The 111. Grand Standard-Bearer. 
All the foregoing officers, except the Sov. Grand Commander, 
shall be elected triennially, by ballot, at an Annual Meeting 
of the Supreme Council. 

The first triennial election shall take place at the Annual 
Session in May, a.d. 1863. 

Article 3. 

Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of Sov. Grand 
Commander, it shall be filled by an election at that or a sub- 
sequent meeting. 

The vacancies now existing in the Supreme Council shall be 
filled by ballot immediately on the adoption of these Articles. 

Article 4. 
Whenever a vacancy shall occur among the active members 
of the Supreme Council, at any Annual Meeting, the same shall 



224 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

be filled from the State wherein the vacancy exists, by the 
election of one of any three names which may be presented by 
the S.\ P.-. R.\ S.\ of such State, or from among the number 
of such residing within such State, at the election of the Su> 
preme Council. 

Article 5. 

Any officer or member absenting himself from the meetings 
of the Supreme Council for more than two successive years, 
may, at the next Annual Meeting thereafter, be declared, by 
a vote of two-thirds of the members present, to have vacated 
his seat as an active member, and the vacancy shall be filled 
in the usual manner. 

Article 6. 

The M.\ P.*. Sov. Grand Commander, or the P. - . Lieutenant 
Grand Commander, and five Inspectors-General, active mem- 
bers of the Council, shall constitute a quorum for the trans- 
action of business. In the absence of the M.\ P.-. Grand 
Commander and the P.-. Lieutenant Grand Commander, nine 
Inspectors-General 33d, active members of the Council, shall 
constitute a quorum for business. 

Article 7. 

The Supreme Council shall meet annually at their Grand 
East, in the city of Boston, on the third Wednesday of May, at 
ten o'clock, a.m. 

Special Meetings may be called by the Grand Commander, 
or five Inspectors-General, active members of the Council, the 
business thereof to be stated in the notification to the members. 

The Annual Meeting of the Supreme Council shall be opened 
in full and ample form. The members shall be clothed in the 
regalia of the grade. 

Article 8. 

The Supreme Council, having the power, may confer any of 
the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite upon 
such brethren as they may deem worthy ; and may delegate 
that power, except as to the 33d and last degree, to the 



CONSTITUTIONS. 225 

Deputies of the Districts, or to a Sov. Grand Inspector-General 
of the 83d, to be used for the purpose of establishing the 
bodies of the Rite in a foreign country, or in sections of this 
Jurisdiction where bodies of the Rite do not exist ; but the 
degree of Inspector-General of the 33d shall not be conferred, 
unless in open Council, at an Annual Meeting and by una- 
nimous consent of the active members of the Council present. 

Article 9. 
powers and duties of officers. 

Sovereign Grand Commander. — The Sovereign Grand Com- 
mander has power and authority to preside in Council, when 
present, — to grant dispensations, — to visit and preside in all 
bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Rite under this jurisdic- 
tion, — to inspect the work, correct irregularities, and, for 
.sufficient cause, to suspend the proceedings of the same, sub- 
ject to the final decision of the Council, — and to do and per- 
form all such other acts and duties, not inconsistent with the 
Constitutions and Regulations of the Order, as in his judgment 
the interests of the Rite may require. 

Lieutenant Grand Commander. — In case of the failure, from 
absence, sickness, or other cause, of the M.\ P.*. Sov. Grand 
Commander, to discharge any of the duties of his office, the 
P.-. Lieutenant Grand Commander shall possess and exercise 
all his powers and prerogatives. 

Secretary- General. — The Secretary-General of the H.\ E.\ 
shall be the Keeper of the Records, Seals, and Archives, or 
papers, MSS., and Documents belonging to the Supreme 
Council. He shall keep an accurate record of its proceedings, 
so far as proper to be written, a full register of all Admissions 
to the Rite, with the date of Admission to the degree of Secret 
Master, — Perfection, Knight of the East and Prince of Jeru- 
salem, — Knight of the East and West, and Prince of Rose- 
Cross,— K.\ H.\ and Sub. P.-. R.-. S.\ 32d grade and to that 
of Sov. Insp. -General of the 33d Degree, with date of Oath of 
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He shall keep a Register and File of Oath of Allegiance due 
to this Supreme Council, a Register of Date, and number of 
all Charters, with a List of Officers and Members of each of 
the bodies of the Rite under this jurisdiction. He shall receive 
such pay for his services as the Supreme Council may from 
time to time direct. 

Treasurer- General. — The 111. Treasurer-General of the Su- 
preme Council shall have charge of all the funds of the same. 
He shall pay them out upon an order from the Supreme 
Council, attested by the Sec. G. \ of the Holy Empire. At the 
Annual Communication of the Supreme Council, he shall make 
a full report of the receipts and expenditures. 

III. Grand Minister of State. — The 111. Grand Minister of State 
shall see that the General Regulations and Statutes of the 
Order are strictly observed. In all cases submitted to or dis- 
cussed in this Supreme Council, he shall act either as pro- 
secutor or counsellor, as the case may require. And the Grand 
Secretary-General shall hold at his disposal such documents 
or vouchers as he may need in the performance of his duties* 

111. Grand Master of Ceremonies. — The Grand Master of Cere- 
monies shall assist the Grand Commander in discharge of his 
duties. He shall introduce visiting Brethren, and accompany 
the initiate in his mystic travels. He shall, on application by 
the deputy of any district, give any Body or Bodies therein 
such instructions as may be required in the work of the Rite. 

III. Grand Captain of the Guard. — The Grand Captain of the 
Guard shall keep a faithful watch, both within and without the 
Council Chamber, and see that the avenues are duly guarded. 
He shall report to the Most Puissant Sov. Grand Commander 
all . messages from without, and deliver the answers trans- 
mitted. He shall also see that the Council Chamber is properly 
prepared and in order for work or deliberations of the Council. 

III. Grand Standard- Bearer. — The Grand Standard-Bearer 
shall be intrusted with the standard of the Order. 

111. Grand 3Iarshal. — The Grand Marshal shall take charge 
of the Supreme Council in all processions of the Order. He 
shall, with the assistance of the Captain of the Guard, conduct 



CONSTITUTIONS. 227 

the officers of the Supreme Council to their stations of dignity 
and service, and perform such other acts as may be required 
of him by the Most Puissant Sov. Grand Commander. 

Article 10. 
The Sov. Grand Inspectors-General of the 33d, active mem- 
bers of the Supreme Council, shall have the right and power 
to visit all the Bodies of the Rite under this jurisdiction, in- 
spect their work, correct irregularities, and do such other con- 
stitutional acts as they may deem for the interest of -the Rite. 
For all such acts and doings they shall be amenable to the 
Supreme Council. 

Article 11. 
If, for any cause, a candidate for the 33d and last degree, 
who has been duly elected, shall fall to receive said degree 
during the session at which such election was had, it shall 
not be competent to confer the degree without a new ballot, 
except by express vote of the Supreme Council. 

Article 12. 
The officers of the Supreme Council, attending the meetings 
thereof regularly convened, shall be paid the sum of three and 
a half cents per mile, by the usually travelled route, to and 
from the place of meeting. 

Article 13. 
After the session of the Supreme Council in May, a.d. 1861, 
no alteration or amendment of these Statutes and Regulations 
shall be made, unless distinct, notice of the change desired 
shall be given, in writing, at an Annual Session of the Supreme 
Council; and the subject shall not be acted upon before the 
next Annual Session thereafter. And no amendment shall be 
deemed to be carried unless two-thirds of the members present 
shall have voted therefor. 



Conferred in 
► Grand Lodge 
of Perfection. 



228 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.-. RITE. 

Article 14. 

DEGREES. 

This Supreme Council claims and exercises exclusive and 
entire jurisdiction over the following Degrees and Orders of 
the "Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite," viz. : — 

1. Secret Master, 

2. Perfect Master, 

3. Intimate Secretary, 

4. Provost and Judge, 

5. Intendant of the Building, 

6. Elected Knight of Nine, 

7. Master Elect of Fifteen, 

8. Sublime Knights Elected, 

9. Grand Master Architect, 

10. Knights of the Ninth or Royal Arch, 

11. Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons, - 

15. Knight of the East or Sword, ] Conferred in Councils of 

16. Prince of Jerusalem, j Princes of Jerusalem. 

17. Knight of the East and West, ] 

18. Perfect Prince Freemason of H.\ R.\ I 

I).: M.\, Knight of the Eagle and Pe- f Cha P^ r of 
, ,. ..., „ -o n Rose-Cross, 

lican, under the title of Rose-Cross, J 

19. Grand Pontiff. 

20. Grand Master Advitam. 

21. Patriarch Noachite, or Chevalier of Prussia. 

22. Prince of Libanus. 

23. Chief of the Tabernacle. 

24. Prince of the Tabernacle. 

25. Prince of Mercy. 

26. Knight of the Brazen Serpent. 

27. Commander of the Temple. 

28. Knight of the Sun. 

29. Patriarch of the Crusades, or Knight of St. Andrew. 

30. Grand Elect Knight of K— H.\ 

31. Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander. 



CONSTITUTIONS. 229 

32. Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, and Knight of the 

White and Black Eagle, S.-. P.-. R.-. S.\ 
[The degrees from 19 to 82 inclusive, conferred in Con- 
sistories of Sub. P.-. Pi.-. S.\] 

33. Sovereign Inspector-General. [Conferred in Siipreme 

Council.] 

Article 15. 
institution of the bodies. 
Applications for Warrants or Charters for the institution of 
the Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Bite in this jurisdic- 
tion shall be made to the Deputy of the District. If he ap- 
proves of the application, it shall be sent, with his report, to 
the Supreme Council or 111. Grand Secretary-General of H.\ E.\ 

BY-LAWS, RULES, ETC. 

Lodges of Perfection, Councils of Princes of Jerusalem, 
Chapters of Rose-Cross, and Consistories of Sovereign Princes 
of the Royal Secret, may form Rules and Regulations for their 
government, not inconsistent with the Constitutions, Ordi- 
nances, Rules, Laws, and Usages of the Order, and the Regu- 
lations adopted for their government by this Supreme Council. 

DISSOLUTION OF BODIES, 

If any Lodge of Perfection, Council of Prince of Jerusalem, 
Chapter of Rose-Cross, or Consistory of Sub. P.-. R.\ Secret, 
under this jurisdiction, be temporarily interdicted or dissolved, 
the officers thereof shall deposit their Dispensation or Charter, 
Manuscripts, Statutes, Rules, and Regulations, and all papers 
appertaining to the Body, with the Deputy of the District, or 
with This Supreme Council, that the same may be deposited in 
its archives for safe-keeping. All members of the Ancient and 
Accepted Rite, up to and including S.\ P.-. of R.-. S.\ 32d, 
shall be amenable to the several Bodies to which they belong. 

EXPULSION OR SUSPENSION. 

No expulsion or suspension, for unmasonic conduct, from 

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230 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

any of the Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Kite, in this 
jurisdiction, shall be valid, unless approved by this Supreme 
Council. Such expulsion or suspension, when so approved, 
shall have full effect in every Lodge of P.-. C.\ of P.-. of Je- 
rusalem, Chapter of Piose-Cross, and Consistory of Sub. P.-. 
R.\ Secret in this jurisdiction. 

REGISTER OF INITIATION. 

The Secretaries of the several Bodies under this jurisdiction 
shall keep a correct Register of all Initiations, specifying the 
time of admission, the age of candidate, place of birth, resi- 
dence, occupation, religion, and date of his Oath of Fealty, 
copies of which shall annually be sent to the Secretary-General 
with the returns, together with a report of all deaths and re- 
movals for the year then past. 

OATH OF FEALTY. 

The presiding officer of the several Bodies under this juris- 
diction, shall require of each and every candidate for admission 
to their respective Bodies, whether for the degrees or for mem- 
bership, an Oath of Fealty to this Supreme Council, which 
Oath shall be annually sent up to the Secretary-General, with 
the returns for the past year. 

DUES TO THE SUPREME COUNCIL. 

Each of the Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Rite under 
this jurisdiction shall annually remit, with its returns, to this 
Supreme Council, the following fees for conferring the degrees 
and dues for their respective Bodies : — 

For each Consistory of Sub. P.-. R.\ Secret $5 

For each Candidate for the degree of K — H and Sub. P.-. 

R.-. S.\ 32d Degree 3 

For each Chapter of Rose-Cross 3 

For each Exaltation to the degree of Rose-Cross and Knight 

of the Eagle and Pelican 2 

For each Council of Princes of Jerusalem 3 

For each Candidate created Prince of Jerusalem 2 



CONSTITUTIONS. 231 

For each Lodge of Perfection $5 

For each Initiate into Ineffable Masonry 2 

FEES FOR CHARTERS. 

There shall be paid into the Treasury of this Supreme 
Council for Charters : 

For Grand Lodge of Perfection $50 

For Council of Princes of Jerusalem 25 

For Chapter of Rose-Cross of H. •. R.\ D.\ M.- 25 

For Consistory of Sub. P.-. R.\ S.\, 32d Degree 50 

Which shall be paid on application for dispensation. 

MINIMUM RATES. * 

The minimum rate of fees for conferring the degrees by the 
Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, under this jurisdic- 
tion, shall be as follows, viz. : — 

For the Degrees of Ineffable Masonry in Lodge of Perfec- 
tion $15 

For the Degrees of Council of Princes of Jerusalem 10 

For the Degrees of Chapter of Rose-Cross of H.\ R.\ 

D.-. M.- 15 

For the Degrees in Consistory of Sub. P.-. R.\ Secret, 32d 25 



Total . 



DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES. 

All Charters, Letters Patent, Diplomas, and Certificates for 
Membership of the Ancient and Accepted Rite in this juris- 
diction shall also emanate from this Supreme Council. All 
Charters, Diplomas, and Letters Patent shall be upon parch- 
ment, and shall be prepared and sealed by the Secretary-Ge- 
neral, the charges for which shall be as follows : — 

For Charters, as above, out of which shall be retained or paid 

to the Secretary-General his fee of $10. 
For Diplomas, $2 each, out of which $1 shall be retained as 

above. 
For Letters Patent, $2 each, $1 each to be retained as above. 

* These rates were adopted by the Supreme Council as an experiment only, 
and were not designed to be the permanent minimum rates. 



232 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 

Said Certificates are also to emanate from the Supreme 
Council, and will be furnished to the several Bodies on applica- 
tion to the Deputy for the District, or to the Secretary-General 
of the H.\ E.\ upon payment of the fee therefor. 

No Brother of the Rite in this jurisdiction, visiting a Lodge 
of Perfection, Council of Princes of Jerusalem, Chapter of 
Rose-Cross, or Consistory of Sub. P.-. R.\ Secret, 32d Degree, 
shall be admitted, unless producing such Certificate or Di- 
ploma of Membership. It shall be the duty of the presiding 
officer of the several Bodies to present such Certificate to every 
Candidate at his initiation in Lodge, Council, Chapter, or Con- 
sistory. All applications for Diplomas or Certificates must be 
made directly to the Secretary-General of the H.\ E.\ 

CORRESPONDENCE. 

No Lodge, Council, Chapter, or Consistory of Sub. P.-. B.*. 
Secret, under this jurisdiction, shall correspond, form any 
alliance, or hold any intercourse with any Lodge of Perfection, 
Council of Prince of Jerusalem, Council of Rose-Cross, or Con- 
sistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, nor with any 
Masonic Body whatever, whether foreign or domestic, which, 
under any denomination, professes to cultivate any of the de- 
grees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and which is 
deemed to be irregular or spurious by the Supreme Council. 

SPURIOUS AND IRREGULAR. 

If any Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason, Prince of 
Jerusalem, Perfect Prince Freemason of H.\ R.\ D.-. M.\, or 
Knight of K.-. H.\, and Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, 
residing within this jurisdiction, shall be present at or assist 
in giving any of the Ineffable Sublime and superior degrees 
and orders of the "Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite," in a 
clandestine or irregular manner, or in a manner not authorized 
by, or contrary to, the Statutes, Rules, and Regulations of this 
Supreme Council, or the Constitutions of Ancient Free and 
Accepted Masonry, he shall be suspended or expelled from all 
the privileges of the Order. And every member of the Ancient 



CONSTITUTIONS. 233 

and Accepted Rite, in and under this jurisdiction, who shall 
come to a knowledge of such illegal proceedings, shall im- 
mediately give information of the same to the Lodge, Council, 
Chapter, or Consistory to which he may belong, or to the De- 
puty of the District, under penalty of suspension or expulsion, 
that the honor, dignity, and rights of our Illustrious Order may 
be fully maintained, and the degrees of the Ancient and Ac- 
cepted Rite be preserved in their purity and integrity. 

REPRESENTATIVES. 

Each Lodge of Perfection, Council of Princes of Jerusalem, 
Chapter of Rose-Cross, and Consistory of Sublime Princes R.\ 
S.\, in this jurisdiction, may send three delegates (who shall 
be Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret), to meet in Grand 
Council of deliberation in the Soyereign Grand Consistory of 
Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, at the Annual and other 
Grand Convocations of this Supreme Council, at its Grand East. 

NOTICE ON APPLICATION FOB. DEGREES. 

Due notice shall be given to all the members, if practicable, 
of the application for degrees in the Lodges, Councils, Chap- 
ters, and Consistories of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, 
at least five days prior to action thereon. 



The Ritual of the Degrees of the "Ancient and Accepted 
Rite," collated from the Archives and arranged for the Work 
of the Bodies of this jurisdiction, by the 111, Past Grand Com- 
mander J. J. J. Gourgas, Past. Grand Commander Giles F. Yates, 
and Past Grand Master of Ceremonies K. H. Van Rensselaer, 
a copy of which is deposited in the Archives of this Supreme 
Council, be and is hereby ordered and decreed as the work 
for all Lodges of Perfection, Councils of Princes of Jerusalem, 
Chapters of Rose-Cross, and Consistories of Sublime Princes 
of the Royal Secret of this jurisdiction. 

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234 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

DISPENSATION, SIX MONTHS. 

No Charter shall be issued by this Supreme Council until 
the Body applying for it shall have been at work at least six 
months under dispensation, and given satisfactory evidence to 
the Deputy of the District of their ability to fit up their Hall 
for work and fully illustrate the Degrees. 

APPEAL. 

A member of any of the Bodies, under this jurisdiction, may 
appeal from the action of a Body of which he is a member to 
this Supreme Council, in all cases of expulsion or suspension 
for unmasonic conduct. 

PERSONAL CONDUCT. 

A member of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, residing or 
abiding for a time within the jurisdiction of a Lodge of Per- 
fection, Council of Princes of Jerusalem, Chapter of Rose- 
Cross, or Consistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, 
shall be amenable to the same, and shall walk and demean 
himself as one worthy of the Order, that he may not disgrace 
himself and bring dishonor on the grade to which he belongs. 

SECRECY ON APPLICATION FOR DEGREES. 

No member of a Lodge of P.-., C.\ of Princes of Jerusalem, 
Chapter of Rose-Cross, or Consistory of Sub. P.-. of R.\ S.\, 
shall give the least information to any person, not a member 
of such Body, in regard to the application for degrees, nor 
communicate the postponement of the question, or the rejec- 
tion of the applicant. 

Candidates for any of the degrees conferred by authority 
of this Supreme Council shall apply to the Lodge, Council, 
Chapter, or Consistory, as the case may be, nearest their re- 
spective places of residence, and shall not be initiated else- 
where, without the consent of such Lodge, Council, Chapter, 
or Consistory, except as herein otherwise provided for. 

PROCESSIONS. 

In all public and other processions of the Rite, the Supreme 



CONSTITUTIONS. 235 

Council shall take rank on the right, headed by the 111. Grand 
Marshal and Standard-Bearer, in full dress, with the Standard 
of the Order, and shall receive all the honors, privileges, and 
rights appertaining to its high grade. 

In the absence of the Supreme Council, the Sov. Inspectors- 
General of 33d Degree shall in like manner take the right of 
all processions. 

PATENTS. 

Each Inspector-General Deputy, and each officer and active 
member of the Supreme Council, shall have a Patent of Dig- 
nity, in which shall be specified his powers and the duties re- 
quired of him, to which the great Seal of the Order shall be 
attached. 

SOVEREIGN INSPECTORS-GENERAL. 

1. A Sovereign Inspector-General of the 33d and last degree 
shall have the privilege of entering and of being covered in all 
Bodies opened in any of the degrees of the "Ancient and Ac- 
cepted Scottish Rite," and of speaking without rising from his 
seat, and also of addressing the chair without first asking per- 
mission. 

2. When a Sovereign Inspector-General of the 33d is an- 
nounced at the door of any Body, in any of the degrees of the 
Ancient and Accepted Pate, he shall be received under the 
Arch of Steel, with the high honors of his grade, and con- 
ducted to the East. The President, or presiding officer of the 
Body, if not an Inspector-General and of equal rank, shall 
resign his station to the visiting Inspector, with whom it shall 
be optional to accept it or not. 

3. A Sovereign Inspector-General of the 33d, upon visiting 
any of the Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, as such, 
shall wear the insignia of his high grade, and, if not presiding 
in the East, shall be seated on the right hand of the presiding 
officer. 

4. A Sovereign Inspector-General may enter and retire from 
any of the Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, at pleasure. 
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236 MANUAL OF THE A.*. AND A.'. RITE. 

any rules, in the opening and closing of the Bodies he may 

visit. 

Article 16. 

The foregoing Statutes and Regulations, and the Constitu- 
tions of 1762 and 1786, so far as the same are unaltered hereby, 
shall henceforth be the law of the Ancient and Accepted Scot- 
tish Rite in the Northern Jurisdiction of the United States. 



REGULATIONS FOR CONSISTORIES OF SUB. PRINCES 
OF THE ROYAL SECRET. 



INSTITUTION OF CONSISTORIES. 

No Consistory of the Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret 
shall be instituted within this jurisdiction, unless upon the 
application of at least five Princes of the Royal Secret, they 
being active members of the Bodies of the "Ancient and Ac- 
cepted Rite," and the application be approved by the Deputy 
of the District. 

DEGREES. 

The Consistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret shall 
have full right and power in this jurisdiction over the following 
Degrees and Orders of the "Ancient and Accepted Rite," to 
wit:— The 19th, Grand Pontiff; 20th, Grand Master Advitam; 
21st, Patriarch Noachite ; 22d, Prince of Libanus ; 23d, Chief 
of the Tabernacle ; 21th, Prince of the Tabernacle ; 25th, Prince 
of Mercy; 26th, Knight of the Brazen Serpent; 27th, Com- 
mander of the Temple; 28th, Knight of the Sun; 29th, Patri- 
arch of the Crusades; 30th, Elected Knight of K— H. ; 31st, 
Grand Insp. -Inquisitor Commander, or Order of Five Brethren ; 
32d, Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, and Knight of the 
White and Black Eagle; but the salutary constitutional regu- 
lations respecting the 30th, 31st, and 32d degrees shall be 
strictly enforced, and these degrees shall, under no circum- 



CONSTITUTIONS. 237 

stances whatever, be conferred by any private Consistory, 
unless by special dispensation from the Sovereign Grand Com- 
mander, the District Deputy of the Supreme Council, or three 
Sovereign Inspectors-General of the 33d Degree, first had and 
obtained. 

OFFICERS OF CONSISTORY. 

The elective officers of a Consistory of Sublime Princes of 
the Royal Secret shall be nine in number, and, in accordance 
with ancient usage, shall take rank as follows : — 

1. 111. Sovereign Commander-in-Chief. 

2. 111. Lieutenant-Commander. 

3. Second 111. Lieutenant-Commander. 

4. Valiant Minister of State. 

5. Valiant Grand Chancellor. 

6. Valiant Grand Secretary, Keeper of the Seals. 

7. Valiant Grand Treasurer. 

8. Valiant Grand Master Architect. 

9. Valiant Grand Engineer. 

On every election night, or oftener, in case of vacancy by 
death or otherwise, the 111. Commander-in-Chief shall appoint, 
or the Consistory elect, in usual manner, a Grand Master of 
Ceremonies, a Grand Captain of the Guard, a Standard-Bearer, 
Sentinel, and Guard. 

ELECTION DAY. 

The Ancient Constitutions of the Order require the election 
of officers to take place at the Triennial Meeting of the Con- 
sistory on St. John's Day. It is therefore ordered that the 
election of the officers of all the Consistories under this juris- 
diction shall be held once in three years, on the 27th of De- 
cember. If, from any cause, the day shall pass without an 
election being held, the Most Puissant Grand Commander of 
this Supreme Council, or the Deputy for the District, may order 
an election for the ensuing three years. A written or printed 
notice of the time of election shall be given to all the members 
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238 MANUAL OP THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

prior thereto. The officers shall be elected by a majority of 
the votes of the members present. 

VACANCIES, HOW FILLED. 

If a vacancy in any of the elective offices shall occur, by 
death or otherwise, at any time previous to the Triennial 
Meeting, a nomination for the vacant office shall be made, and 
an election take place at a stated meeting of the Consistory, 
upon the Secretary's giving the members the usual notice ; 
except when there is a vacancy in the office of Commander-in- 
Chief, in which case the First Lieutenant-Commander shall suc- 
ceed to his command, be invested with his title, and be pos- 
sessed of all his powers and prerogatives, until the next Tri- 
ennial Meeting. 

ELIGIBLE TO OFFICE. 

No Prince shall be eligible to any office, elective or appointed, 
in any Consistory, unless he is an active member of the same. 

DUTY OF COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. 

It shall be the duty of the Commander-in-Chief to preside 
at all meetings of his Consistory ; to appoint Committees and 
Representatives, and shall, ex officio, be Chairman of all Com- 
mittees. He shall discharge all the duties which are prescribed 
by the Ancient Constitutions, Laws, and Regulations, and the 
Ritual and Usages, of the Order. 

DUTIES OF LIEUTENANTS-COMMANDER. 

In case of the absence of the Commander-in-Chief at any 
meeting of the Consistory, the First Lieutenant-Commander 
shall preside, and, in his absence, the Second Lieutenant-Com- 
mander shall take the chair. 

RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

Each Consistory under this jurisdiction shall make such 
Rules and Regulations for the government of the same as may 
be required ; provided they do not interfere or conflict with 
the Decrees, Rules, and Regulations of this Supreme Council 



CONSTITUTIONS. 239 

for the Government of the Bodies of the "Ancient and Ac- 
cepted Scottish Rite," and with the Constitutions and Usages 
of the Order. 

All such Rules and Regulations must be approved by this 
Supreme Council. 

STATED MEETINGS. 

Each Consistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret 
under this jurisdiction shall assemble at regular Stated Meet- 
ings, at least four times in each year, and at such other times 
as they may deem expedient. 

SPECIAL MEETINGS. 

Special Meetings may be called by the Commander-in-Chief, 
at any time he may deem necessary, and, in his absence, by 
the Lieutenant-Commander. Notice of such meetings shall be 
given to the members at least five days prior thereto. 

NOTICE BY GRAND SECRETARY. 

The Grand Secretary shall give notice to all the members of 
the Consistory at least five days before all stated or special 
meetings. 

QUORUM FOR BUSINESS. 

Five active members of the Consistory shall constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business, provided the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, or one of the Lieutenant-Commanders, be 
present. 

RETURNS. 

Each Consistory shall make a return of its initiates and the 
election of its officers on or before the third Wednesday of 
May, annually. 

OBJECTIONS TO CANDIDATE. 

Any member of a Consistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal 
Secret, having objections to the applicant, and unwilling by 
his vote to disturb its harmony, may communicate his objec- 



240 MANUAL OP THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

tions to the Commander-in-Chief, who will cause due respect 
and attention to be paid to the same. 

SUSPENSION AND EXPULSION, ETC. 

A Consistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret shall 
have full power and authority to hear and determine all matters 
of difference between its members ; to punish by reprimand, 
suspension, or expulsion, with the concurrence of two-thirds 
of the members present. Any Prince aggrieved by such action 
may appeal, in writing, to this Supreme Council for such redress 
as his case may require. 

SOJOURNERS. 

A Prince of the Royal Secret, residing or abiding for a time 
within the jurisdiction of a Consistory, shall be amenable to 
the same (see Ritual), and shall regulate his conduct and 
walk by truth and justice, and live agreeably to the Laws, 
Rules, and Regulations of the Order, and demean himself so 
that no part of his life or conduct may disgrace the Order or 
bring discredit upon himself. 

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE GRADE. 

Forasmuch as Religion is a worship necessarily due to the 
Supreme Grand Architect of the Universe, no person shall be 
initiated into the Sacred Mysteries of the degrees of Knight 
of K. ■. H.\ and Sub. P.-. R.\ S.\, who fails to profess his 
belief in the Holy Bible and the religious truths and principles 
therein inculcated, nor unless he is of free parents, conducts 
himself well, and is under the tongue of good report, and has 
as such been admitted to all the preceding degrees of Masonry, 
nor unless he has at all times given proof of his obedience, 
zeal, fervor, and constancy, and that all this is certified by 
three Knight Prince Masons of the White and Black Eagle. 



CONSTITUTIONS. 241 



REGULATIONS FOE THE GOVERNMENT OF CHAPTERS 
OF EOSE-CEOSS DE H-E-D-M. 



ORGANIZATION. 

For the organization of a Chapter of Eose-Cross of H-E- 
D-M., Knights of the Eagle and Pelican, at least five Breth- 
ren, Enights of the E.-. and W.\ and Perfect Prince Free- 
masons of H-E-D-M., being active members of a Council of 
Princes of Jerusalem, must petition this Supreme Council, said 
petition being approved by the Deputy of the District. 

OFFICERS. 

The elective officers shall take rank and title as follows : — 

1. Most Wise and Perfect Master. 

2. Most Excellent and Perfect Knight Senior Warden. 
8. Most Excellent and Perfect Knight Junior Warden. 

4. Eespectable and Perfect Knight Treasurer. 

5. Eespectable and Perfect Knight Secretary. 

6. Eespectable and Perfect Knight Master of Ceremonies. 

7. Eespectable and Perfect Knight Captain of the Guard. 
The Most Worshipful shall select a Brother to act as Tyler. 

ELECTION. 

The officers shall be elected annually, on Holy Thursday 
and be installed before entering on the duties of their office. 
Should the Chapter fail of an election on the above day, the 
present officers shaU continue, unless the M.\ P.-. of the Su- 
preme Council, or the District Deputy, shall order an election. 

QUORUM. 

A Chapter of the Eose-Cross cannot assemble for the trans- 
action of business, unless there be present at least five mem- 
bers of the grade, including the M.\ W.\ and P.-. Master, or, 
in his absence, the M.\ E.\ Senior or Junior Warden. 
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242 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.-. RITE. 

CONSTITUTIONAL MEETINGS. 

Chapters of Rose-Cross must assemble on the Constitutional 
days of the Order, namely, on the Thursday before Easter, 
Easter Day, Pentecost, All Saints', and Christmas Day. They 
may also assemble on the two St. John's Days, and at such 
other times as may be found necessary. 

SPECIAL MEETINGS. 

Special Meetings may be called by the M.\ W.\ and P.-. 
Master, or, in his absence, by the Senior Warden, and, in his 
absence, by the Junior Warden. 

NOTICE OF MEETINGS. 

The Secretary shall give written or printed notice of all Con- 
stitutional, Stated, and Special Meetings. 



Each Chapter of Rose-Cross in this jurisdiction shall ob- 
serve the "Grand Feast Days of Strict Observance," namely, 
Holy Thursday and Christmas, which cannot be dispensed with. 
The Brethren may also celebrate Pentecost, All Saints', and 
St. John's Days. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

By the Ancient Constitutions of the Order, a Chapter of 
Rose-Cross cannot consist of more than thirty-three active 
members. Honorary members may be admitted at the pleasure 
of the Chapter. 

RETURNS. 

Each Chapter shall make an Annual Return of the Election 
of its Officers, the Initiation of Candidates, and Reception of 
Members, to the Supreme Council, on or before the third 
Wednesday of May. 

SUSPENSIONS AND EXPULSIONS. 

Every Chapter of Rose-Cross under this jurisdiction shall 
have power to hear and determine all differences between its 



CONSTITUTIONS. 243 

members, and to punish, by reprimand, suspension, or expul- 
sion, two-thirds of the members present voting therefor. 

APPLICATIONS FOR DEGREES. 

All applications for the degrees of Knight of the East and 
West, and Prince of Rose-Cross, must be in writing, with the 
fee for the degrees accompanying the same, and shall be re- 
commended by at least two Perfect Prince Freemasons. 

QUALIFICATIONS, 

The applicant shall be a member of a Council of Princes of 
Jerusalem under this jurisdiction, and shall agree to conform 
to the Pules and Regulations of the Order. 

NOTICE. 

Notice shall be given to the members of the Chapter, if 
within this jurisdiction, at least five days prior to action on 
such application, unless by special Dispensation from the Most 
Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander, or the Deputy of the 
District. 

UNANIMOUS VOTE FOR INITIATION AND MEMBERSHIP. 

No Brother shall be initiated to the grade of Knight of the 
East and West and Rose-Cross of H.-. R.\ D.\ M>., or ad- 
mitted a member of the Chapter, without the unanimous con- 
sent of all the members present. 

CHARACTERISTICS. 

In accordance with the Ancient Regulations, every Knight 
Prince of the Rose-Cross is under obligation to select his pri- 
vate characteristic, and have the same recorded in the archives 
of his Chapter. He must add to his signature to all Masonic 
papers and documents the character of his official grade, and 
to all papers relating to his Chapter his private characteristic, 
in addition thereto. 

PRIVILEGES. 

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244 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.\ RITE. 

have the privilege and prerogative to hold the Mallet in any 
Lodge or Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite they may 
visit, providing the Presiding Officer of the same is not of 
equal or higher rank and degree. If that honor is not tendered 
to them, they must take the lowest seat in the Body, in token 
of their humility. 

Princes of the Rose-Cross visiting a Lodge, Council, or 
Chapter, as such, must be fully decorated with the insignia of 
the grade. 

SICKNESS. 

If a Knight Prince of Rose-Cross fall sick, it shall be the 
duty of all the Princes to visit him, and see that he is taken 
care of and well provided with all things needful. 

DEATH. 

If he dies, all the Knight Princes are obliged to attend his 
funeral, with the Insignia of the Order. The Brother Prince 
of Rose-Cross must be buried with the Order and Jewel of the 
grade on his breast. 

DUELS. 

Princes of the Rose-Cross shall not engage in mortal combat 
with each other, under pain of the most severe penalties. 



Prince Masons of Rose-Cross are bound in honor and duty 
to reverence their God, and defend their country and govern- 
ment to the last drop of their blood. 

A Knight Prince of Rose-Cross cannot absent himself from 
the Stated Meetings of his Chapter, when notified, except in 
cases of sickness, without first obtaining permission from the 
Most W.\ and P.-. Master. 



CONSTITUTIONS. 245 



FORMATION OF STATE GRAND COUNCIL OF PRINCES 
OF JERUSALEM. 



FORMATION. 

Whenever there shall he three or more Councils of Princes 
of Jerusalem under Charter, and legally constituted by this 
Supreme Council, in any State or Territory in this jurisdiction, 
a State Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem may be formed, 
upon the approval of the Deputy of the District, and by the 
approbation of the Most Puissant Grand Commander or Su- 
preme Council. 

HOW FOKMED. 

For the purpose of forming a Grand Council of Princes of 
Jerusalem, three delegates, being Princes- of Jerusalem, from 
each Grand Lodge of P.-., and three from each Council of 
Princes of Jerusalem in the State or Territory, shall assemble 
together, and form themselves into a Grand Council for the 
State or Territory in which they are located. Being thus 
formed, they shall petition the Supreme Council of Sovereign 
Inspectors-General of 33d of the jurisdiction for a Charter, 
with powers to open and hold such State Grand Council of 
Princes of Jerusalem, with such powers, hereafter to be speci- 
fied, as may be deemed for the good of the-Rite. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR COUNCILS OF PRINCES 
OF JERUSALEM. 



INSTITUTION OF COUNCILS. 

A Charter or Dispensation may be granted for the formation 
of a Council of Princes of Jerusalem, upon the application of 
five Knights of the East and Princes of Jerusalem, they 
being active members of a Grand Lodge of Perfection, and 
their petition being approved by the Deputy of the District. 
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OFFICERS AND RANK. 

The officers of a Council of Princes of Jerusalem shall, in 
conformity with ancient usage, be styled and take rank as 
follows : — 

1. Most Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master. 

2. The Grand High Priest, Substitute Deputy. 

3. Most Enlightened Senior Grand Warden. 

4. Most Enlightened Junior Grand Warden. 

5. Valorous Grand Keeper of the Seals and Archives. 

6. Valorous Grand Treasurer. 

7. Valorous Grand Master of Ceremonies. 

8. Valorous Grand Master of Entrances. 

9. Grand Tyler. 

ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 

The officers of a Council of Princes of Jerusalem shall be 
elected annually, at the Regular Meeting, on the 20th day of 
the month Tebet (answering to December), and installed into 
office on the 23d day of the month Adar thereafter (answering 
to February). If, from any cause, the election of officers 
should not take place at the Constitutional time, the officers 
of the past year may hold over. The M. \ P.*. Grand Com- 
mander, or the Deputy of the District, may issue an order for 
an election of officers, if deemed advisable. 

QUORUM FOR BUSINESS. 

Five members may open a Council of Princes of Jerusalem 
for the transaction of business, provided the Most Equitable 
Sovereign P. \ Grand Master, the Grand High-Priest, or either 
of the Wardens, may be. present, 

CONSTITUTIONAL MEETINGS. 

Councils of Princes of Jerusalem shall assemble at least four 
times in each year, on the 23d day of the month Adar, the 20th 
day of the month Tebet, and on the equinoctial days in the 
months of March and September. 



CONSTITUTIONS. 247 

FEAST DAYS. 

The Grand Feast Days of Princes of Jerusalem shall be on 
the 23d of the month Adar, and the 20th day of the month 

Tebet. 

SPECIAL MEETINGS. 

Special Meetings of Council of Princes of Jerusalem may be 
called at any time, by the Most Equitable Sovereign P. •. Grand 
Master, and, in his absence, by the Grand High-Priest, his 
Deputy, upon giving due notice to all the members. 

EXPULSION AND SUSPENSION. 

In all cases of expulsion or suspension for unmasonic con- 
duct, a vote of two-thirds of the Princes shall be required. 

PARTY SPIRIT, ETC., FORBIDDEN. 

All party spirit and cabal in a Council of Princes of Jeru- 
salem is expressly forbidden, also the soliciting of votes at an 
election of officers, under the pain of expulsion from the 
Council. 

CHALLENGES. 

A Prince giving another Prince a challenge shall be ex- 
cluded forever from all Councils under this jurisdiction. 

HONORS, ETC. 

A Prince of Jerusalem, visiting a Lodge of Perfection, as 
such, shall present himself clothed in the dress and attributes 
of the grade, and shall be received with the honors due to his 
station. 

RULES FOR PRINCES. 

Princes are strictly to observe the rule enforcing justice and 
good order. Their conduct in life must be irreproachable ; 
and, if guilty of any immoral conduct, or if in any way they 
disobey the Decrees, Rules, and Regulations of the Order, they 
shall be reprimanded, suspended, or expelled. 

Returns. 
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248 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.-. RITE. 

of its Initiates and the Election of its Officers, &c, as con- 
stitutionally provided, on or before the third Wednesday of May 
annually. 

DEGREES. 

Councils of Princes of Jerusalem shall have control and 
jurisdiction over the degrees of Knight of East or Sword, 
and Princes of Jerusalem, and the degrees of Royal and Select 
Master of 27 and other detached degrees, which have been 
from time immemorial attached and vested in Lodge of Perfec- 
tion and Council of Princes of Jerusalem. 

Council of Princes of Jerusalem may, by permission of and 
under the direction of the Supreme Council, authorize and 
empower the formation of Councils of Royal and Select Master 
to be attached to Lodge of Perfection, and may confer the de- 
grees on Worthy Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons. 

APPLICATION J OR DEGREES. 

Letters of application from Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime 
Masons, for the degrees of Knight of the East and Prince of 
Jerusalem, shall be accompanied by a Certificate from the 
Secretary of the Lodge of Perfection to which he belongs, that 
he is a member in good standing, and shall enclose the required 
fee for the elevation to those grades. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

No Prince can be a member of a Council of Princes of Jeru- 
salem, who is not a member in good standing of a Lodge of 
Perfection under this jurisdiction, and shall have taken the 
Oath of Fealty to this Supreme Council. 



The degree of Knight of the East and Prince of Jerusalem 
does not give the recipient of that degree rank in a Lodge of 
Perfection, or Council of Princes of Jerusalem. By the present 
established usage of the Craft, he must be elected and installed 
into office, and fully established as such, to be entitled to 
rank. 



CONSTITUTIONS. 249 

OFFICIAL DEGREE. 

The first five officers of a Lodge of Perfection and Council 
of Princes of Jerusalem, before they can be legally installed 
into their respective offices, must receive the official degree of 
Prince of Jerusalem, in a legally qualified Council. Before 
they shall receive the degree,' they shall produce a Certificate 
from the Grand Secretary of the Lodge or Council of their 
election to office, in the following form, &c. : — A. B., son of B. 

C, has been regularly elected T.\ P.-. Grand Master of 

Lodge of Perfection, or Council of Princes of Jerusalem. The 
Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem shall not receive more 
than five dollars for such official degree, nor shall it be con- 
ferred on more than the first five officers of the Lodge of Perfec- 
tion or Council of Princes of Jerusalem. Where there is no State 
Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem established, it may be 
conferred by those of the grade in a Council of Princes of Je- 
rusalem. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR GRAND LODGE OF 
PERFECTION. 



INSTITUTION OF LODGES. 

A Charter or Dispensation may be granted for constituting 
a Grand Lodge of Perfection, upon the application of at least 
six active worthy Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons, 
five of whom must have taken the degrees of Knight of the 
East, and Prince of Jerusalem, in a just and constitutional 
manner, such application being approved by the Deputy of the 
District in which it is desired the Lodge shall be located. 

OFFICERS AND RANK. 

The officers of a Lodge of Perfection shall, in conformity with 
the most ancient usage, take name and rank as follows : — 

1. Thrice Potent Grand Master. 

2. Hiram of Tyre, Deputy Grand Master. 



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3. Venerable Senior Grand Warden. 

4. Venerable Junior Grand Warden. 

5. Grand Keeper of the Seals. 

6. Grand Treasurer. 

7. Grand Secretary. 

8. Grand Orator. 

9. Grand Master of Ceremonies. 
10. Grand Captain of the Guard. 

The Thrice Potent Master shall, at each election, appoint a 
Grand Hospitable Brother, and one or two Grand Tylers. 

OPENING OF LODGE OF PERFECTION. 

Five members of Princes of Jerusalem may open a Grand 
Lodge of Perfection, and proceed to the transaction of busi- 
ness, provided there shall be present the Thrice Potent, his 
Deputy, or either of the Venerable Wardens. 

SPECIAL MEETINGS. 

The Thrice Potent, and, in his absence, his Deputy, may call 
Special Meetings of his Lodge, by giving the members due 
notice of the same. 

ELIGIBLE TO THE DEGREES. 

Free and Accepted Active Worthy Master Masons, and none 
others, shall be eligible to initiation into Ineffable Masonry, 
provided they are at the time officers or active members of a 
regular Symbolic Lodge of Master Masons. 

ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 

The election of officers shall take place on the 3d day of the 
month Adar, the memorable day of the year 2995 (answering 
to the month of February), and be installed as soon after as 
practicable. If, from any cause, the time shall pass without 
an election, the officers of the past year shall perform the 
duties, or the Most Puissant Grand Commander of the Supreme 
Council, or the Deputy for the District, may order a meeting 
for such election. 



CONSTITUTIONS. 251 

RETURNS. 

Each Lodge shall make the Constitutional Return of its Ini- 
tiates and the Election of its Officers, &c, to the Supreme 
Council, on or before the third Wednesday in May, annually. 

FEASTS AND FESTIVALS. 

Lodges of Perfection shall every year celebrate the Anni- 
versary of the Building of the First Temple of the Grand 
Architect of the Universe, in the month Zif or Tisri (answering 
to the 5th day of October), and shall also observe the 5th day 
of the month Ab (July), in memory of the Dedication. 

FUNERALS. 

On the death of a Brother of the degree of Perfect Master, 
all the Brethren of the Rite must attend and assist in the 
funeral ceremonies. The Lodge should be opened in the Per- 
fect Master's Degree, and the ceremonies of that degree ob- 
served for the occasion. A Lodge of Sorrow may also be 
opened, and an Elegy pronounced by the Grand Orator. 

SECRECY IN LODGE MATTERS. 

Secrecy in reference to our mysteries, as well as the trans- 
actions of the Lodge, being an indispensable obligation, the 
Thrice Puissant Grand Master shall, before closing his Lodge, 
remind the Brethren of their duty in this particular, and en- 
force the observance of it in the usual manner. 

STATED MEETINGS. 

Lodges of Perfection shall assemble at the Hall for instruc- 
tion, or work, at least four times in each year, in addition to the 
day of the election of their officers. 

It shall be the duty of every Grand Lodge of Perfection in 
this jurisdiction to hold itself under the superintendence of 
the Supreme Council, and make its Annual Returns thereto, 
unless in a State or Territoi-y where a State Grand Council 
of Princes of Jerusalem has been legally established, to whom, 
in such case, it shall make its Report and Returns. 



252 MANUAL OF THE A/. AND A.'. RITE. 

RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

It shall be competent for any Grand Lodge of Grand E.\ P.*. 
and Sublime Masons to make such Laws, Rules, and Regula- 
tions for its government, not inconsistent with the Constitution 
of the Order and Regulations of the Supreme Council, as it 
may deem requisite or expedient. 



It shall have the power to try its members for violations of 
its Regulations and those of the Order, or for any unmasonic 
conduct, and inflict the penalties of reprimand, suspension, or 
expulsion : nevertheless there shall be right of appeal to the 
Supreme Council for final action. 

OF SOJOURNERS. 

All Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons residing or 
being for a time within the jurisdiction of a Grand Lodge of 
such, shall be held amenable to its Rules and Regulations, and 
may be tried for breach of constitutional obligations. 

ELIGIBILITY. 

All Worthy Active Master Masons, being members in good 
standing of a Symbolic Lodge, shall, upon presenting a cer- 
tificate to that effect from the Secretary thereof, be eligible to 
the degrees conferred in Grand Lodge of Perfection. Applica- 
tions for degrees shall be accompanied by the recommendation 
of three Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Master Masons, in 
good standing, and the required fee for the degrees. 



CEREMONIES AND CHARGES. 253 



(S>mmmit$ mu\ ($\xmp$ 



CONSTITUTING A GRAND LODGE OF PERFECTION 
AND INSTALLING ITS OFFICERS. 



(The Brethren being assembled in an appropriate Hall or in 
the Lodge-room, the M.\ I.-. Deputy of the District, or his 
legal representative, rises and says : — ) 

Brethren of Grand Lodge of Perfection, do you 

still remain satisfied with the Officers whom you have chosen 
to govern your Lodge and conduct its work ? 

(The Brethren applaud, and respond -***-******) 

(TheT.-. P.-. G. •. M.\ and Officers elect, being in waiting, 
are conducted into the Hall and presented to the M. \ I. \ De- 
puty, by whom they are severally installed, with the following 
ceremonies. — ) 

Ceremonies at A.-. 



(Chant, ante pp. 75-77.) 

G. \ 31. -. — Most Illustrious Deputy, — I have the honor of pre- 
senting to you my venerable and sublime Brother 
to be installed T.\ P.-. G.-. M.\ of this G.-. L.-. of P.-. I find 
him well skilled in Ineffable Masonry, and observant of all the 
duties of a G.-. E.\ P.-, and S.\ M.\ ; and I doubt not but 
that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office* 

31.-. I.-. Deputy. — My S.\ and V.\. Brother, — You have been 

elected T.\ P.-. G. •. M.\ of this Grand Lodge of Perfection. 

The rank you have attained in the Sublime mysteries, and your 

past services in this Lodge, are a sure guaranty that you are 

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254 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ RITE. 

■well versed in all matters pertaining to the Craft and the 
duties that will devolve upon you as its head. But previous to 
your investiture it will be necessary for you to give your assent 
to the following questions, viz. : — 

1. Do you promise, in the presence of the G.\ M.\ of Heaven 
and Earth, and your Brethren about you assembled, to fulfil 
the duties of the office of T.-. P.-. G.-. M.\ of this G.\ L.-. of 
P.-. to the best of your ability? 

(Ans. — I promise.) 

Note. — When the Installation Services are in public, the 
first part of the C.\ should be previously performed in the 
Lodge-room. 

2. Do you promise to observe, and, as far as in your power, 
to act and walk in accordance with the duties which should 
characterize a G.\ E.-. P.-. and S.\ M.\ ; to fly from vice an& 
shun every evil that would degrade the high station to which 
you have now attained ? 

(Ans. — I promise.) 

8. Do you promise to govern your Lodge with equity and 
justice, and, as far as in your power, to increase its prosperity 
and contribute to the happiness of your Brethren? 

(Ans. — I promise.) 

4. Do you promise that you will not confer the Ineffable and 
Sublime Degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry upon any one not 
duly qualified to receive them, nor upon one whose life and 
character you disapprove ? 

(Ans. — I promise.) 

5. Do you promise to observe and maintain, as far as lies in 
your power, the By-Laws, Rules, and Regulations of the Su- 
preme Council of S. •. G.\ I.-. G.-. 33d of this jurisdiction for 
the Government of Lodges of Perfection, together with the 
Ancient Constitutions of the Order, so far as they may come 
to your knowledge? 

(Ans. — I promise.) 

6. Do you promise that you will not acknowledge, nor have 
Masonic intercourse with, any Lodge of Perfection which doea 



CEREMONIES AND CHARGES. 255 

not work under the authority of a legal Charter or Warrant 
of dispensation ? 

(A?is. — I promise.) 

7. Do you promise to bind your successors in office to the 
performance of the foregoing rules and regulations ? 

(Ans. — I promise.) 

My Brother, — Believing that you will faithfully execute the 
promises you have now made, I with pleasure invest you with 
the jewel of your office, the Crowned Compass, with a sun in 
its centre. 

The Crown on your jewel denotes the royal station you oc- 
cupy; the extended compasses, the extensive knowledge of the 
G.\ E.\ The sun in its centre is to remind you that, as the 
sun by its vivifying rays imparts life and vigor to all within 
its circle, so should you, my Brother, in your daily walk and 
in the performance of the duties of your high station, impart 
the genial influence of light and knowledge to your Lodge and 
to the Fraternity in general. 

In token of the authority you are to exercise over your 
Brethren, I now present you with this Royal Sceptre. But, 
my Brother, in your exalted station, forget not the ancient in- 
junction, "If thou be made master, lift not thyself up, but be 
among the brethren as one of them; take diligent care for 
them ; and when thou hast done thy duty, sit thee down, that 
thou mayest be merry with them, and receive a crown for thy 
good behavior." 

You are now presented with the Charter (or Warrant), under 
which you are authorized to open and hold a Grand Lodge 
of Perfection, together with the rules and regulations of the 
Supreme Council for the government of L.-. of P.-., and the 
By-Laws of your Lodge. 

I also give in your special charge the Holy Bible, the great 
light in every degree of Masonry, and the golden Delta, which 
is an emblem of the incomprehensible Jehovah, our Adonai. 

I now have the pleasure of investing you with the Royal 
Robe of S.\, our Ancient G. \ M.\, and crown you with his 
Crown. The colors of your vestment and robe are emblematic 



256 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.\ IlITE. 

of three jewels of inestimable value, viz., wisdom, strength, 
and fidelity : wisdom, which is the fear of the Lord and the 
practice of virtue ; strength, which is love, the cement of souls, 
and the bond of perfection; fidelity in the discharge of all 
your duties as a man and as a Mason. 

To you is committed the superintendence and govern- 
ment of the Brethren of your Lodge. Let the illustrious 
example of the most wise and powerful of kings, whom you 
represent, be constantly before you, and, when called away 
from your work on earth, may you be admitted to the S.-. V.-. 
of Heaven, where the Lord our Adonai shall preside, and there 
ever contemplate the pillar of beauty and enjoy eternal happi- 
ness. 

Grand Marshal. — M.\ 111. Deputy, — I have the pleasure of 
presenting to you for installation Brother , 

D.-. TV. P.-. G.-. M.-. Elect of this G.-. L.-. 

M.-. I.-. Deputy. — My V.\ and S.\ Brother, — You have been 
elected Deputy T.-. P.-. G.-. M.\ of this G.-. L.-. of P.-., and 
I with pleasure invest you with the insignia of your office (the 
crowned Compasses, with a moon in its centre). 

The Crown and extended Compasses denote the dignity of 
your station and the extensive knowledge of the G.\ E.\ And 
as the mild rays of the moon govern the night, so may you, 
my Brother, in the absence of the T.\ P.-. G.\ M.\, fulfil the 
duties of his station, and receive the same reward for your 
labors. As the representative of H.\ K. •. T.\, I invest you 
with his Royal Robes and decorate you with his Crown. 

The colors of your robe and vestment denote zeal, fidelity, 
and wisdom, and are to remind you that you should blend 
wisdom and zeal in your Masonic duties, fidelity and friend- 
ship to your brethren, and love to all mankind. 

Grand Marshal. — M.\ I.-. Deputy, — I have the pleasure of 
presenting to you for installation Brother , V.-. S.\ 

G.\ W.\ Elect of this G.\ L.-. 

M.-. I.-. Deputy. — My Yen. Brother, — You have been elected 
S.\ G.-. W.-. of this G.\ L.\ of P.-., and I with pleasure in- 



CEREMONIES AND CHARGES. 257 

vest you with the badge of your office (a gold Trowel). In 
the absence of the T.\ P.*. and Deputy, you will assume their 
duties and take charge of the Lodge. It would be needless, 
my Brother, to remind you of the necessity of making your- 
self familiar with the duties of their offices as well as those 
of your own. The Trowel with which you are invested is a 
symbol of union, and is expressive of that union which should 
cement all G. ■• E.\ P.-. and S.\ M.\ You represent an An- 
cient Brother to whom K. \ S.\ gave in charge all the work- 
men of the T.\ We look to the west for the well-being, 
peace, and harmony of the Craft. 

Grand Marshal. — M. •. I.-. Deputy, — Permit me to present to 
you for installation Brother , V.-. J.-. G.\ W.\ 

Elect of this G.\ L.\ 

M.-. I.'. Deputy. — My Ven. Brother, — -You have been elected 
J.-. G. \ W.\ of this G. \ L. ■. of P.-., and I with pleasure in- 
vest you with the jewel of your office (a Sword). With the 
duties of your station you are doubtless well acquainted. In 
the absence of your superior officers, you will preside over the 
Lodge. The Sword with which you are invested is to remind 
you that, although the sword of justice may overtake and 
punish the guilty traitor, yet it rewards the faithful and 
meritorious Brother. 

You represent an Ancient Brother who was engaged in a 
difficult and dangerous undertaking. You will, like him, my 
Brother, let no difficulties or dangers deter you in the discharge 
of the duties of your office. Your station is on the R.*. of 
the S.\ Gt.: W.-., in the W.-. 

G.'. M.-. — M.\ I.-. Deputy, — I have the honor of presenting 
for installation Brother , Gr.*. K. •. of the S.\ 

Elect of this G.\ L.-. 

31.-. I.-. Deputy. — Ven. Brother, — You have been elected G.\ 
K. •. of the S.\ of this G. •. L.\ of P.-., and as such I invest 
you with an Ivory Key, as a badge of your office. To you are 
intrusted the archives of the G.\ L.\, and they are with con- 

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258 MANUAL OF THE A.". AND A.\ RITE. 

fidence committed to your care. You represent our Ancient 
Brother G.\, whose father was a chief of the L. ■. 

G. \ M.: — M.\ I.-. Deputy, — I have the pleasure of present- 
ing to you for installation Brother , G.\ T.\ Elect 
of this G.\ L.\ 

Mr. Ir. Deputy. — My Brother, — You have been elected T.\ 
of this G.\ L.\ of P.\, and I with pleasure invest you 
with the insignia of your office (a gold Key). With the 
duties of your station and the important trust committed to 
your care, you are fully acquainted. You represent an An- 
cient Brother to whom were intrusted the keys and treasure 
of the T.-. of K. •. S.\ ; and, like him, may you faithfully dis- 
charge the duties of your office, and possess the full confidence 
of the T.\ P.-. G.-. M.\ and of your Brethren. 

G. : Mr. — M.\ I.-. Deputy, — I have the honor of presenting 
to you for installation Brother , Grand Secre- 

tary Elect of this G.-. L.-. 

31. : I. \ Deputy. — My Brother, — You have been elected Secre- 
tary of this G.\ L.-. of P.-., and as such I invest you with 
the emblem of your office (a gold Pen). A punctual attend- 
ance on the meetings of the G.\ L.\, and a correct record of 
all proceedings proper to be written, are indispensably neces- 
sary ; and we trust the Brethren may find no cause to repent 
of their partiality in selecting you to fill this important station. 
As G. •. S.\, you are a witness to all alliances made with virtue 
and the virtuous. 

If a Brother should go astray, you will produce the record 
of the alliance he has contracted, and use every endeavor to 
induce him to return to the paths of virtue; for "virtue unites 
what death cannot separate." 

Gr. Mr. — M.\ I.-. Deputy, — Permit me to present for in- 
stallation Brother , Grand Orator Elect of this 
G.-. L.-. 

31.-. Ir. Deputy. — My Brother, — You have been elected Grand 
Orator of this G.\ L. \ of P.'., and I with pleasure invest you 



CEREMONIES AND CHARGES. 259 

with the jewel of your office (a Scroll). Tour duty is to make 
discourses illustrative of the Order, and to explain the mysteries 
of Ineffable Masonry. You represent the learned Brother A.-, 
of olden times, Tvho was deeply versed in ancient lore. 

G. •. 31.-. — M.-. I.-. Deputy, — I have the pleasure of present- 
ing for installation Brother , G. \ M.\ of Cere- 
monies Elect of this Lodge. 

31. •. I. •. Deputy. — My Brother. — You have been elected Grand 
Master of Ceremonies of this G.\ L.\ of P.-., and as such 
I have the pleasure of investing you with the insignia of your 
office (the Staff). Your duty is to assist the officers of your 
L.-. in the discharge of their duties. To your care the candi- 
date, on his mystic way to perfection, is intrusted, and upon 
you in a great measure devolves the preservation of the 
ancient rites and ceremonies of the Order. An intimate 
acquaintance "with them is, therefore, indispensably necessary. 

And, while you, my Brother, conduct others, may you ever 
have a faithful leader at hand to guide you during your earthly 
pilgrimage and lead you through the dark valley of the shadow 
of death. Your station is in the X.-. 

G. : 31.-. — M.\ I.-. Deputy, — I have the pleasure of present- 
ing for installation Brother , G.\ H.\ B.\ Elect 
of this G.-. L.-. 

31. ■. I. : Deputy. — My Brother,— You have been appointed G. \ 
H.-. B.-. of this G. •. L.-., and as such I have the pleasure of 
investing you with the jewel of your office (a "Winged Rod). 
Your duty is to visit the sick and minister to the wants of in- 
digent brethren. As the Almoner of this G. •. L.\, you will 
promptly go to the relief of those who may be in need of your 
services. 

G. \ 3L-. — M.\ I.-. Deputy, — I have the honor of presenting 
to you for installation Brother , G. •. C.\ G. \ 

Elect of this G.\ L.-. 

31.-. I.-. Deputy. — My Brother, — You have been appointed 
G.\ C.\ G. •. of this G.\ L.-. of P.-., and I with pleasure in- 



260 MANUAL OF THE A.'. AND A.'. RITE. 

vest you -with the emblem of your office (a Spear). To your 
care, my Brother, is intrusted the security of the L. •. and of 
the entrance to the S.\ V.-. ; and may you be ever ready to 
suffer death rather than permit the valuable secrets intrusted 
to your care to be exposed to the eyes of the profane. On all 
occasions it is your duty to preserve order and decorum, and 
to assist the officers of the L.-. in the discharge of their duties. 
Upon you also devolves the accommodation and comfort of 
the members, and of extending a fraternal welcome to visiting 
Brethren. Finally, my Brother, look well to tour post, so 
that when you apply for entrance to the S.\ V.-. above, the 
flaming sword may be turned aside, and you be admitted to 
that feast which will last forever. 

G. •. M.\ — M.\ I. - . Deputy, — Permit me to present to you 
for installation Brother , Grand Tyler Elect of 

this L.\ 

31.-. I.-. Deputy. — My Brother, — You have been appointed 
G.\ T.\ of this G.\ L.-. of P.-., and I with pleasure invest 
you with the jewel of your office (a Flaming Sword). It is 
your duty to guard with care and vigilance the entrance to the 
L.\, and allow no improper ingress or egress. 

Your punctual attendance on the meetings of the L.-. is par- 
ticularly required. And may you, my Brother, and may we 
all, be prepared at the approach of the Grand Tyler, Death, to 
leave this earthly Lodge, and, possessing the celestial pass- 
word, gain admission into that Temple "not made with hands, 
eternal in the heavens." 

Your station is at the entrance of the L.-. Guard well your 
trust. 

M.\ I.-. Drpufy.—T.-. P.-. G.\ If.*.,— The talents you have 
hitherto displayed, and the zeal and ability with which you 
have fulfilled the duties of the several stations heretofore in- 
trusted to your care, have caused the Brethren of this Lodge 
to elevate you to the office of T.\ P. . G.\ M.\ of this G.- 
L.\ of P.*. Your intelligence and uprightness are a sure 
guaranty for the faithful performance of its duties. With the 



CEREMONIES AND CHARGES. 261 

assistance of your able and worthy officers, and of the Brethren 
of your Lodge, we trust that your task will prove a pleasant 
one, and redound to the honor of yourself, the Craft at large, 
and to the good of your fellow-men. The officers of the Su- 
preme Council and the members generally of the A.-, and A.-. 
Scottish Rite, feel themselves under deep and lasting gratitude 
for the zeal, energy, and devotion to the cause of genuine 
Free Masonry manifested in the administration of the affairs 
of this G. •. L.-. of P.*. I but express their sentiments in say- 
ing that we have full confidence in its future prosperity and 
usefulness in the able hands of those to whom its welfare is 
now intrusted. 

You are doubtless aware, my Venerable and Sublime Brother, 
that the welfare and prosperity of a Lodge depend upon the 
energy and zeal of the T.\ P.-. Gr. •. M\\ and the co-operation 
of the officers and members of the Lodge. As you move in 
the good work, they should cheerfully follow and aid you in 
carrying it out. Impress upon their minds the many valuable 
lessons they have been taught in the degrees of Ineffable Ma- 
sonry. Urge them to a more careful study of its mysteries, a 
more assiduous cultivation of its noble principles, and the dili- 
gent practice of its many virtues. Finally, my Brother, let me 
earnestly recommend to you the strictest care in the admission 
of members to the S.\ V.-. : let none enter but such as will 
stand the most scrutinizing tests. If tried and found wanting, 
let them go back and continue their travels until they are better 
fitted for Perfection. By admitting none but the good and 
true, your beautiful Temple will be the abode of peace and 
love. And when your work on earth is finished, when old age 
approaches, and man's strength decays, and your sun is setting 
in the West, may the reflected splendors of a virtuous and use- 
ful life gild your departing moments with loving tints of hope, 
and close your career with peace, harmony, # and love. 

(To the Lodge.) 
M. •. /.-. Deputy. — My Brethren, — Such is the nature of our 
institution that some govern and teach, whilst others listen 



262 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 

and obey. With subordination, there is order, harmony, and 
unanimity ; without it, all is anarchy and confusion. Your 
officers may be faithful in the discharge of their official duties 
and with zeal urge on the good work ; but to be successful 
they must have your co-operation and support. The love and 
interest you feel for the welfare of our glorious Institution 
will, I trust, make that duty your greatest pleasure. Honor 
the patriarchal government of our Order, respect its time- 
honored traditions, and adhere to its precepts. Prominent 
among the beauties of Ineffable Masonry is its harmonizing 
influence upon discordant elements, bringing all its members 
into a unity of feeling and action, cementing them together as 
one man, and forming a spiritual Temple delightful to the eye 
of every enlightened mind. In the language of the Psalmist, 
"Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell 
together in unity !" 

Brotherly love and charity are fundamental principles of 
our Order; it is the office of Ancient Masonry to draw out 
these attributes, and, by inculcating them to its votaries, bring 
them to a full performance of the duties they owe to God, their 
neighbor, and themselves. The genuine principles of Free 
Masonry have been and are the same in all ages and places of 
the world. Time, nations, and tongues may modify its rituals 
and clothe it in other garbs, yet its principles are unchanging 
and unchangeable; it brings together those of different tongues, 
creeds, and parties, and enables them to discharge the duties 
they may owe to their respective associations without violating 
the rights of others, or interfering with their duties as men 
and Masons. May peace and unity ever reign among you ! By 
acts of charity and kindness seek to brighten the chain of 
friendship ; and may " the Lord bless you and keep you ; the 
Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto 
you ; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you 
peace." 



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264 MANUAL OF THE A.*. AND A.'. RITE. 

I. 

Glory be to | God in the | highest, 
And on earth | peace, among | men good | will. 
We give thee thanks, Lord | God Al- | mighty, 
Who art, and who | wast, and who | art to ) come. 

II. 

Lord, the Alpha | and the 0- | mega, 

The beginning and the | end, the [ First and the | Last ; 

The everlasting Father, The only-begotten Son j Jesus | Christ, 

The Word Incarnate, The Holy | Spirit, The | Comfort- | er. 

III. 

Thou art | worthy, ] Lord, 

To receive glory, and | honor, and | power ; 

For thou hast ere- | ated all | things, 

And through thy will they are and | were ere- | ated. 

Who will not fear | thee, | Lord, 

And glorify thy Name ? for thou a- | lone art | holy. 

II. 

Great and marvellous are thy works, | Lord | God Al- | 

mighty ! 
Just and true are thy | ways, Thou | King of | saints! 

I. 

Amen: Blessing, and | glory, and wisdom, 

And thanksgiving, and | honor, | and power, and | might, 

Be [ unto our | God 

For | ever and | ever. A- | men. 



CEREMONIES AND CHARGES. 265 



PRATER. 

Most holy and glorious Lord our God ! Thou who dwellest 
between the cherubim, and art known in the heavens and upon 
the earth by thy name Jah : we approach thee with reverence 
and awe, humbly imploring thy blessing upon the officers and 
brethren of this Gr. •. L. •. of P.-. . Fill their hearts, we beseech 
thee, with thy love and fear ; make them steadfast in thy ser- 
vice and true to their obligations ; may the incense upon their 
altars prove an acceptable sacrifice unto thee ; may they admit 
none into their sacred retreat but those of one heart and of one 
mind, and whose chief desire it is to acknowledge thee as their 
Father. May they love, honor, and obey thee, and love one 
another "even as thou lovest us." Finally, when the time of 
our labor is drawing to a close, enable us by thy love to pass 
joyfully through the dark valley of the shadow of death, bless 
us, and receive us for thy Name's sake. Amen. 



(ORATION, or FEAST.) 



266 MANUAL OP THE A.". AND A.'. RITE. 



(RmmmUt m& ©terflpw 



INSTALLING THE OFFICERS AND CONSTITUTING 
A COUNCIL OF PRINCES OF JERUSALEM. 



Note. — The ceremonies being conducted in the same manner 
as in the installation of the officers of a G.\ L.\ of P.*., all that 
part in which it is only necessary to substitute the appropriate 
titles and make a slight change in the phraseology has been 
omitted. 

CHABGE TO A SOV. P.*. G.\ M.\ OF A COUNCIL OF P.'. OF J.'. 

Sov. P.-., — Having given your assent to the regulations and 
requirements prescribed by the Supreme Council of'S.-. G.\ 
I.\ G. •. for this jurisdiction, by the high powers in me vested, 
I now constitute and create you Most Equitable S.\ P.-. G.- 
Master of Council of P.-. of J.-., and invest 

you with the jewel of your office (a Hand of Justice, and Bal- 
ance in equipoise). It should remind you that the hand of 
justice should guide you in your decisions, and that equity 
should distinguish you in all your actions. Receive this 
Sceptre and Gavel, the prerogatives of your station, and an 
emblem of your right and power to govern. The robes with 
which you are invested are to remind you of the royal origin 
of the grade. The Crown with which you are adorned is a 
symbol of your princely station. 

By this Charter, which you will take in your especial charge, 
you are authorized to open and work in a C.\ of K.\ of the 
E.\ and a C.\ of P.-. of J.-. You will also receive in charge 
the "Book of the Law," the great light of Masonry. "May 
it guide you to all truth," and, like Z.\ of ancient times, whose 
station you now fill, may you ever love truth. "For it is 



CEREMONIES AND CHARGES. 267 

mighty, and will prevail; it is pure, and maketh wise the 
simple," and is the object of every good man's search. 

CHARGE TO THE G. \ H.'. P.'. 

Illustrious Prince, — You have been elected G. \ H.\ P.-. and 
Deputy S. •. P. -. G. : M. •. of this Council of P. -. of J. \ ; and I have 
the pleasure of investing you with the emblem of your office 
(a Circle surrounding a Delta). It denotes the eternity of the 
S.\~€L\ A.\ 0.-. T.\ IT.-., and should remind you of the sacred 
character of your office. You are to conduct the religious 
services of this Council, and to assist the S.\ P.*. G-.\ M.\ in 
the discharge of his duties, and, in his absence, to preside 
You are doubtless aware of the responsibility of your station 
and the importance of the trust committed to your care. 

As the representative of the 6r.\ H.\ P.-. of the Temple of 
S.\, you are now invested with the mitre and robes of your 
office. 

The mitre is the symbol of intelligence and wisdom, and 
should remind you that ''the fear of the Lord is the beginning 
of wisdom." 

The various colors of the robes you wear are emblematic of 
the virtues which should adorn and beautify the mind and 
grace your conduct through life. 

CHARGE TO SENIOR AND JUNIOR G.\ WARDENS. 

Illustrious Princes, — You have been elected Senior and 
Junior Gr.\ Wardens of this Council, and as such I with plea- 
sure invest you with the jewels of your station (jewel of S.\ 
W.\, Pillar of Strength, and Shield,— of J.-. W.\, the Compasses 
resting upon the segment of a circle) as Princes of Judah and 
of Benjamin. You have the charge of your respective Tribes, 
and are to lead them forth in the great and glorious work of 
rebuilding the Temple of your God, with the Trowel in one 
hand and the Sicord in the other. Press forward in the great 
work, and, "turning neither to the right nor to the left, in all 
your actions have eternity in view." In the hour of affliction, 
• of difficulty, or of danger, be ever to your brethren a pillar of 



268 MANUAL OF THE A.\ AND A.'. RITE. 

strength, a shield of defence, and a compass by ■which they 
may be enabled to walk correctly through the journey of life. 

CHARGE TO THE G. \ K. \ OF THE S.'. 

Val. Prince, — You have been elected G. : K. •. of the S.\ of 
this Council of P.-. of J.-., and as such I have the pleasure of 
investing you with the jewel of your office. To you are in- 
trusted the Archives of this Council, and they are with con- 
fidence committed to your care. 

CHARGE TO GRAND TREASURER AND SECRETARY. 

Val. Princes, — You have been elected Grand Treasurer and 
Grand Secretary of this Council of P.-. of J.-., and I now have 
the honor of investing you with the insignia of your office 
(jewel of G.-. T.\, an oblong Square and Vase, — of the G.\ S.\, 
a Balance in equipoise). As Prince of the Temple, guard well 
her treasures. 

As Prince of the Law, look well to the equity of your judg- 
ments. "To the faithful and upright prince shall be awarded 
an unfading crown of glory." 

CHARGE TO THE GRAND MASTER OF CEREMONIES. 

Val. Prince, — You have been elected Grand Master of Cere- 
monies of this Council of P.-. of J.-., and as such I invest you 
with the jewel of your office (the Trowel and Plumb). As 
Prince of the workmen, it is your province to see that none 
but perfect materials are used in our sacred edifice. The 
beauty, harmony, and order of the works of this C.\ depend 
much upon the manner in which you fulfil the duties of your 
office. Look well to your charge. 

CHARGE TO THE GRAND MASTER OF ENTRANCES. 

Val. Prince, — You have been elected G.\ M.\ of the E.\ of 
this Council, and I have the pleasure of investing you with 
the badge of your office (a Spear). As Prince of the G. •., the 
safety and security of the C.\ is committed to your care. The 
zeal and energy you have hitherto displayed render it un- 
necessary for me to point out the many duties of your office. 
" Guard well your trust." 



CEREMONIES AND CHARGES. 269 

CHARGE TO THE GRAND TYLER. 

Val. Prince, — You have been elected Grand Tyler of this C. \ 
of P.-. of J."-., and as such I now invest you with the jewel of 
your office (a Flaming Sword) : it is to remind you of the 
jealous care with which you should guard the entrance to this 
Council, and the zeal you should display in the discharge of the 
various duties of your office. "Look well to your post." 

DECLARATION, RESPONSE, AND INVOCATION, AFTER THE INSTAL- 
LATION OP THE OFFICERS. 

31.'. I.-. Deputy. — Valiant Knights and Prince Masons, — Do 
you acknowledge the authority of the officers I have established 
over this Council ? 

(Applaud, and respond, "We acknowledge them.") 

M.\ /. •. Deputy. — Do you promise them obedience? 
{Respond, "We promise.") 

J/.-. /. ■. Deputy. — By virtue of the high powers in me 
vested, I now declare w Council of Princes of J.-. 

regularly constituted, and its officers duly installed. " May the 
blessings of Heaven rest upon you, and may you prosper in 
all your works." May the glorious work of re-edification com- 
mence, and may the rubbish of error and vice be removed from 
your midst. May the robes with which you are invested re- 
mind you that, as they are emblematic of Divine truth, love, 
and wisdom, so should you, by an upright walk and conversa- 
tion, by purity of heart, a charitable disposition, and a good 
life, erect in your hearts a Temple for the worship of the Lord 
God of heaven and earth, our Adonai. 



270 MANUAL OF THE A.*. AND A.\ RITE. 

CHARGES UPON INSTALLING THE OFFICERS OF A 
CHAPTER OF ROSE CROIX DE H.-. R.-. D.-. M.\ 

(See Note, ante, p. 206.) 



CHARGE TO THE M.\ W.\ AND P.'. MASTER. 

Respectable and P.-. Knight, — You have been elected M.\ 
\Y.\ and P.-. M.\ of this Chapter of Rose -\- Masons; and, 
having full confidence that you will to the best of your abilitie( 
discharge the duties of your station, I now with pleasure in- 
vest you with the insignia of your office (a gold Star, with seven 
points; in the centre the letter J.-., surrounded by the letters 
F.-. H.\ C.\). It is the symbol of wisdom, and emblematic of 
the blazing star that guided the wise men of the East to the place 
of the Saviour's nativity. The letter J.', in the centre is to 
remind you of Him who said, "I am the light of the world: 
he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have 
the light of life." The letters F.\ II.-. C.\ are emblematic of 
the three great attributes of Christian Masonry, — faith, hope, 
and charity, — and should remind you that it is your duty to 
teach your brethren to love one another, and so to live that, 
when death shall cover them with his dark mantle, the blazing 
star may be their guide "to a heavenly mansion, — that house 
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 

CHARGE TO THE S.\ W. \ 

M.-.E.-. and P.-. Knight, — You have been elected M.\ E.\ S.\ 
W.\ of this Chapter of Rose -|- Masons : and I now have the 
pleasure of investing you with the jewel of your office (a gold 
Triangle, with a red enamelled cross in the centre). The tri- 
angle is a symbol of the Divine Trinity. The red cross is 
emblematic of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and is the 
symbol of Christian Masonry. 

Your duty is to assist the M.\ AY.-, in the discharge of his 
duties, and to preside in his absence. Your preferment by 
your brethren is a sufficient evidence of your competence to 



CEREMONIES AND CHARGES. 271 

fill this important station; and, as your column is an emblem 
of strength, may you ever be to your Chapter a pillar of 
strength ; and, in the hour of sorrow and gloom, may you be 
the strength and support of your brethren, and be the means 
of leading them to Him whose insignia you now wear upon 
your breast. 

CHARGE TO THE J.-. W. \ 

M.\ E.\ and P.-. Knight, — You have been elected M.-.E.-. J.\ 
W. •. of this Chapter of Rose -j- de H-R-D-M ; and I now have 
the honor of investing you with the jewel of your office (gold 
Compasses, resting upon the Square). It is a symbol of per- 
fection, and emblematic of the unition of that love and truth 
which are represented by F.\ H.\ C.\ Your duty is to assist 
the M.\ W.\ and S.\ W.\ in the discharge of their duties, 
and, in their absence, to preside. And, as your column is an 
emblem of beauty, may you by a faithful discharge of the 
duties of your office, and upright walk and a good life, teach 
your brethren the beauty of holiness, and that true charity 
consists in love to God and man. 

CHARGE TO GRAND TREASURER AND SECRETARY. 

R. •. and P.-. Knights, — You have been elected Grand Trea- 
surer and Grand Secretary of this Chapter ; and as such I 
have the pleasure of investing you with the insignia of your 
office. With the duties of your stations, and the important 
trusts committed to your care, you are fully acquainted ;• 
and we trust the brethren may find no cause to repent of 
their partiality in selecting you to fill these important stations. 

CHARGE TO THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES. 

R.-. and P.-. Knight, — You have been elected Master of 
Ceremonies of this Chapter; and as such I have the pleasure 
of investing you with the emblem of your office (the Staff), a 
symbol of power. It should remind you that you are to sup- 
port your superior officers in the discharge of their duties, 
and that to you is intrusted the support of the weary pilgrim 
when in difficulty and danger, and to lead him out of dark and 



272 



MANUAL OP THE A.*. AND A.*. RITE. 



dismal places. Your station is in the N. •. ; and, like the North 
Star to the mariner, may you be a sure guide to your brethren, 
and, like the Psalmist, may you be enabled to say, " I will fear 
no evil, for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff, they com- 
fort me." 



CHARGE TO THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD. 

R.\ and P.-. Knight, — You have been elected C.\ of the G.\ 
of this Chapter ; and as such I have the pleasure of investing 
you with the jewel of your office (a Spear). It is emblematic 
of the warfare waged by truth against error, and should 
remind you that, as none but the good and true are permitted 
to enter the portals of Heaven, it is your duty to see that 
none but the worthy are permitted to penetrate the mysteries 
of your Chapter. 



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TRIUMPHAL CHORUS. 

AiR- — " Suoni la tromba." 

Raise the glad voices of triumph, 
No longer shall tyrants enslave us, 
Lo ! he is coming to save us, 

Judah's lion to save. 
Crown him with garlands of laurel, 
Clothe him in raiment of honor, 
Welcome to Salem our brother, 

Zerubbabel the brave. 

Eos anna ! Warmly we welcome our brother, 
Zerubbabel the brave. 

Welcome the day of rebuilding, 

The chief whom we honor shall lead us. 

The prayers of the righteous shall aid us, 

Once more is Judah free. 
And on the mountain so holy, 
Our Temple shall rise to the Lord. 
In Zion his name be adored ; 

To him bend the knee. 

Eosanna ! In Zion our God be adored, 
To him bend the knee. 

Glory to God in the highest, 

He leads us from bondage and night, 

He brings us to freedom and light, 

His name shall be adored. 
And on the bells of the horses, 
Shall be written in letters of gold, 
And again shall be sung as of old: 

Holiness to the Lord ! 

Eosanna ! Once more we will sing as of old, 
Holiness to the Lord ! 



CALENDAK 
FOR THE HEBREW YEARS 

5622— 5660 ; 

BEING ALSO FOR THE TEARS OF OUR LORD 
1861-1900. 



Ineffable Freemasons have been accustomed to date all their acts 
and instruments relating to the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, after 
the manner of the Jews, according to the Hebrew calendar. The 
Judaic year is luni-solar ; being governed in its length as nearhy as 
possible by the time- taken by the earth in its revolution round the 
sun, and in its division into lunar months, which accord as well as 
they can with the time that the moon requires in passing around the 
earth. A lunation occupies about 29 days, 12 hours, and 44 minutes : 
therefore, as each day, and consequently each month, commences and 
terminates at midnight, some months must have 29 days only, and 
others 30 clays. And again : as twelve lunar months do not fill the 
whole space of time of a solar year by about eleven days, some years 
must have thirteen months. The Jews commenced the year at two 
different periods. The ecclesiastical year began in the month ISTisan, 
on or immediately after the new moon following the vernal equinox, 
and regulated the time of their religious fasts and festivals : the civil 
year began in the month Tisri, as near as possible to the occurrence 
of the new moon after the autumnal equinox, and was used in all their 
civil, legal, and historical matters, and is the year used in the calendar 
adopted by ineffable Freemasons. 

The months, with the number of days in each, are, — 



1. Tisri. or Tiscliri .... 30 days. 

2. Marchesvan, Ghesvan, 

or Bui . . . . 29 or 30 " 

3. Chisleu, or Kislev . 29 or 30 " 

4. Tbebet, or Tebeth ... 29 " 
5". Sebat, or Scbebat ... 30 " 
6. Adar 29 " 

(Teadar, or Wadar . . 29 ") 



7. Xisan. or Abib . . . . 30 c 

S. Ijar, Jyar, or Zius . . 29 

9. Sivan 30 

10. Tbammuz, or Tamuz . 29 

11. Al 30 

12. Elul 29 

ami in intercallary years 30 



The intercallary month Yeadar (second Adar) occurs only in year? 

( 275 ) 



276 HEBREW CALENDAR. 

having thirteen months. Owing to the difference in the length of some 
of the months (Marchesvan, Chisleu, and Elul), a year of twelve 
months may contain 353, 354, or 355 days; and a year of thirteen 
months, 383, 384, or 385 days. 

To find the Jewish year corresponding with a given year of our 
Lord, add 3760 to the portion of the year preceding the first day of 
the month Tisri, and 3761 to the remainder of the year. 

In a cycle of nineteen years, the 3d, 6th, Sth, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 
19th have thirteen months, and the remaining twelre have twelve 
months each. The year of this cycle is determined hy the remain- 
der, after dividing the year A.\M.\ by 19. 

The five following pages contain the Hebrew calendar for ten years 
from 1 Tisri A.\M.\ 5622 (5 September, A. D. 1861), indicating the 
first and last days of each Hebrew month, with the corresponding 
days of the Christian year, and the first day of each month of the 
Gregorian calendar, and its corresponding day in the Hebrew calen- 
dar. The succeeding pages, commencing with the 297th Hebrew 
cycle, which begins on 1 Tisri A.\M.\ 5625 (1st of October, A.D. 
1864), shows the first day of each Hebrew month for the remaining 
part of the century. 

The Jews celebrate certain days in each year by feasts. The fol- 
lowing are the most important to be known b} r Freemason*.: — 

Feast of the Passover celebrated 15 Nisan. 

Morrow of the Passover " 16 " 

End of the Passover " 22 " 

Feast of Pentecost " 6 Sivan. 

Feast for the New Year " 1 Tisri. 

Feast of Tabernacles " 15 " 

Feast of Palms " 21 " 

End of the Feast of Tabernacles " 22 " 

Rejoicing for the Discovery of the Law . . " 23 " 

Consecration of the Temple " 25 Chisleu. 

Ineffable Freemasons observe certain other days, some of which are 
favorably regarded by the Jews, as — 

The Feast commemorative of the Reconstruction of the Temple, 23d of Adar. 
Feast commemorative of the Return from Babylon, 20 Thebet. 
Days of the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes. 

They also, in the various grades of Freemasonry, observe Easter Day, 
which occurs 27 March, 1864; 16 April, 1865; 1 April, 1S66; 21 April, 
1867; 12 April, 1S68 ; 28 March, 1S69 ; 17 April, 1S70: and 9 April, 
1871 ; Christian Pentecost, or Whit-Sunday, the 50th day or 7th 
Sunday after Easter Day; the Day of St. John the Baptist, 24 June; 
All-Saints' Day, 1 November; Christmas Day, 25 December; and the 
Day of St. John the Evangelist, 27 December. 



HEBREW CALENDAR. 277 


A.\M.\5622 3 


—Zm.Days. 


A.-.M/. 5623— 854 i%s. 


1 Tisri* . . . 


5 Sept., 1861. 


1 Tisri 25 Sept., 1862. 


27 " 


1 Oct., " 


7 " 1 Oct., « 


30 « 


4 « « 


30 " 21 « « 


1 Marches van 


5 " « 


1 Marchesvan . 25 " " 


28 « 


1 Nov., " 


8 " .1 Nov., « 


30 « 


3 « " 


29 « . 22 " « 


1 Chisleu . . 


4 « « 


1 Chisleu . 


. . . 23 " 


28 " 


1 Dec, " 


9 « . 


. . . 1 Dec, " 


30 " 


3 " " 


30 « 


. . . 22 " 


1 Thebet . . . 


4 « « 


1 Thebet . 


. . . 23 « 


29 « ... 


1 Jan., 1862. 


10 « . 


. . . 1 Jan., 1863. 


1 Sebat .... 


2 « 


29 « . 


20 " 


30 « .... 


31 " 


1 Sebat . . 


. ... 21 . « 


1 Adar .... 


1 Feb., " 


12 " . 


. . . 1 Feb., « 


29 « .... 


1 March, "- 


30 « . 


. . , 19 " 


30 « .... 


2 " " 


1 Adar . . 


. . . 20 « 


1 Veadar . . 


3 " 


10 " . . 


. . . 1 March, " 


29 " 


31 " 


29 " 


20 " 


1 Ms an . . . 


1 April, " 


1 Nisan . . 


. .... 21 " 


30 " 


30 " " 


12 « . . 


... 1 April, « 


1 Ijar 


1 May, " 


30 " 


. . . 19 " 


29 " .... 


29 " « 


1 Ijar . . 


. . . 20 " « 


1 Sivan. . . . 


30 « 


12 " . . 


. . . 1 May, « 


3 « .... 


1 June, " 


29 " 


. . . IS " " 


30 " .... 


. 28 « 


1 Sivan . . 


. . . 19 " « 


1 Thammuz . 


29 " « 


14 ' « 


. . . 1 June, " 


3 " 


1 July, « 


30 « . . 


. . . 17 " 


29 " 


27 « 


1 Thammus 


. . IS « " 


1 Ab 


28 " 


14 « 


. . 1 July, « 


5 " 


1 Aug., « 


29 


. . 16 « « 


30 « 


26 « 


1 Ab ... 


. . . 17 "- 


1 Elul .... 


27 « 


16 " ... 


. . . 1 Aug., « 


6 " .... 


1 Sept., « 


30 "... 


. . . 15 " « 


29 " .... 


21 « " 


1 Elul . . 
17 " . . 


. . . 16 " 

. . . 1 Sept., « 






* The ecclesiastical year begins six 


29 " 


. . . 13 " 


months earlier. 







278 



HEBREW CALENDAR. 



A.O,I.\ 5624, 

1 Tisri .... 
18 " .... 
30 « .... 

] Marches van 
19 
29 " 

1 Chisleu 
20 
29 " 

1 Thebet 

22 " 

29 « 
1 Sebat 

24 " 

30 " 
1 Adar 

23 « 
30 " 

1 Veadar 

24 « 

29 " 
1 Xisan 

25 " 

30 " 
1 Ijar 

26 " 

29 « 
1 Sivan 

27 « 

30 « 
1 Thainumz 

25 " 
29 

1 Ab .... 
30 « .... 

1 Elul . . . 
29 " ... 



— 383 Z%*. 


. 14 Sept., 1863. 


. 1 Oct., " 


. 13 " " 


. 14 " 


. 1 Nov., " 


. 11 " « 


. 12 " 


. 1 Dec, « 


. 10 « 


. 11 « « 


. 1 Jan., 1864. 


. 8 « « 


. 9 " 


. 1 Feb., « 


. 7 « 


. 8 « 


. 1 March, " 


. 8 " " 


. 9 " " 


. 1 April, " 
. 6 " « 


. 7 « 


• 1 May, " 
. 6 " « 


. 7 " 


. 1 June, " 


. 4 " « 


. 5 " « 


. 1 July, " 
. 4 " 


. 5 " " 


. 1 Aug., « 


. 2 " « 


. 3 " 


. 1 Sept., " 
. 2 « " 


. 30 « 



A. 



-.M.-. 5625 

Tisri .... 



-355 2)ays. 



l 
30 " 

1 Marchesvan 

2 « 
30 " 

1 Chisleu 

2 " 
30 " 

1 Thebet 

3 « 
20 " 

1 Sebat 



1 Ijar 
5 " 

29 « 

1 Sivan 
7 rf 

30 « 

1 Tham 

7 M 
29 

lAb . 

9 " . 
30 " . 

1 Elul 
10 " 
29 " 



1 Oct 

30 « 

31 « 

1 Xov., 

29 " 

30 « 

1 Dec, 

29 " 

30 " 

1 Jan., 1 

27 « 

28 « 

1 Feb., 

26 « 

27 « 

1 March, 
27 « 

25 " 

1 April, 

26 « 

27 " 

1 May, 

25 « 

26 « 

1 June, 

24 " 

25 « 

1 July, 

23 " 

24 « 

1 Aug., 

22 « 

23 « 

1 Sept., 
20 « 



1-04. 



A. D. 1-04 is a Leap- Year. 





HEBREW CALEJk DAR. 


279 


A/.M.\ 5626,— 354 Days. 


A.-.M.-. 5627 — 385 Da^. 


1 Tisri . 


.... 21 Sept., 1865. 


1 Tisri . . . 


. . 10 Sept., 1866. , 


11 " . 


i-^ ... 1 Oct., " 


22 " ... 


. . 1 Oct., « 


30 « . 


. . . . 20 « " 


30 " ... 


. . 9 " 


1 Marchesvan . 21 " " 


1 Marchesvan . 10 " " 


12 « 


. 1 Nov., " 


23 


. 1 Nov., " 


29 < 


. 18 « " 


30 « 


. 8 " " 


1 Chislev, 


.... 19 " 


1 Chisleu . . 


. . 9 « " 


13 


.... 1 Dec, " 


23 " 


. . 1 Dec, " 


30 " 


.... 18 " " 


30 "... 


. . 8 " 


1 Thebet 


.... 19 " " 


1 Thebet . . 


. . 9 " 


14 " 


.... 1 Jan., 1866. 


24 « 


. . 1 Jan., 1867. 


29 " 


.... 16 " « 


29 " 


. . 6 " " 


1 Sebat 


.... 17 " " 


1 Sebat . . 


. . 7 " 


16 « . 


.... 1 Feb., " 


26 " 


. . 1 Feb., « 


30 " . 


.... 15 " " 


30 " 


. . 5 " « 


1 Adar 


.... 16 " " 


1 Adar . . . 


. . 6 « « 


14 " . 


.... 1 March, " 


24 " 


. . 1 March, " 


29 « . 


.... 16 " 


30 " 


, . 7 " 


1 Nisan 


.... 17 " " 


1 Veadar . 


. . 8 " 


16 " . 


.... 1 April, " 


25 " 


. . 1 April, " 


30 " . 


.... 15 " " 


29 « 


. . 5 « « 


1 Ijar . 


.... 16 " " 


1 Nisan . 


. . 6 " 


16 " . 


.... 1 May, " 


26 " 


. . 1 May, « 


29 « . 


.... 14 " « 


30 " 


. . 5 " " 


1 Si van 


.... 15 " " 


1 Ijar . . 


. . 6 " «. 


18 " 


.... 1 June, ." 


27 " . . 


. . 1 June, " 


30 " 


.... 13 " " 


29 " 


. . 3 " 


1 Thami 


nuz . . 14 " " 


1 Sivan . . 


. . 4 " 


18 


. . 1 July, « 


28 " . . 


. . . 1 July, " 


29 " 


. . 12 « « 


30 « '. . 


. . . 3 " " 


lAb . 


13 " « 


1 Thamniuz 


. . 4 « 


20 « . 


1 Aug., « 


29 « 


. . 1 Aug, « 


30 « . 


11 " « 


1 Ab ... 


. . . 2 " 


1 Elul 


12 " « 


30 " ... 


. . . 31 « " 


21 « 


1 Sept., « 


1 Elul . . 


. . . 1 Sept., « 


29 « 


9 " « 


29 " 


. . . 29 " 



280 



HEBREW CALENDAR. 



A.\M.\ 5628,- 

1 Tisri 



30 « 

1 Marchesvan 

3 « 
29 « 

1 Chisleu 

4 « 
29 " 

1 Thebet 
6 « 
29 " 
1 Sebat 



30 « 
1 Adar 
7 " 

29 « 
1 Nisan 
9 « 

30 « 
1 Ijar 
9 " 

29 « 
1 Sivan 

11 « 

30 « 
1 Thammuz 

11 

29 

1 Ab 

13 « 
30 « 

1 Elul 

14 « 
29 " 



-353 Z%s. 


30 Sept., 1867. 


1 Oct., " 


29 « 


30 " 


1 Nov., " 


27 « 


28 " « 


1 Dec, " 


26 « " 


27 " 


1 Jan., 1868. 


24 " « 


25 « " 


1 Feb., « 


23 « 


24 « " 


1 March, " 


23 « 


24 « 


1 April, " 


22 « « 


23 " « 


1 May, " 


21 « « 


22 " « 


1 June, " 


20 « « 


21 « 


1 July, " 


19 a tt 


20 « « 


1 Aug., " 


18 « « 


19 « « 


1 Sept., " 


16 « « 



A.\M.\ 5629,-354 Days. 

1 Tisri 17 Sept., 1868. 

15 " 1 Oct., « 

30 " 16 . " " 

1 Marchesvan . 17 u " 

16 " . 1 Nov., " 

29 « . 14 « 

1 Chisleu . .... 15 « « 

17 « .... 1 Dec, " 

30 " .... 14 <f " 
1 Thebet .... 15 a « 

18 « .... 1 Jan., 1869. 

29 " .... 12 " « 
1 Sebat 13 " " 

20 « 1 Feb., « 

30 « 11 .» 

1 Adar 12 .« 

IS " 1 March, " 

29 " 12 " « 

1 Nisan 13 " " 

20 " 1 April, " 

30 " 11 « 

1 Ijar 12 « " 

20 " 1 May, " 

29 " 10 " " 

1 Sivan 11 " « 

22 " 1 June, " 

30 " 9 « 

1 Thammuz . . 10 " u 

22 « . . 1 July, " 

29 « . . 8 « « 
1 Ab 9 " 

24 " 1 Aug., " 

30 " 7 « 

1 Elul 8 " 

25 " 1 Sept., " 

29 " 5 " 

A. D. 1868 is a Leap- Year. 





HEBREW CALENDAR. 


281 


A.\M.\ 5630,— 385 Days. 


A/.M/. 5631,— 355 Days. 


1 Tisri . . 


. . . 6 Sept., 1869. 


1 Tisri . . 


. . . 26 Sept., 1870. 


26 " 


. . . 1 Oct., " 


6 " . . 


. . . 1 Oct., " 


30 " . . 


... 5 « 


30 " 


/. . 25 " 


1 Marchesvan . 6 " " 


1 Marcbesv 


an . 26 " ". 


27 " 


. 1 Nov., " 


7 


. 1 Nov., " 


30 « 


. 4 ' ■" " 


30 " 


. 24 " « 


1 Chisleu 


. . 5 " " 


1 Chisleu . 


. . . 25 « " 


27 " 


. . . 1 Dec, " 


7 " . 


. . . 1 Dec, " 


30 " 


. . . 4 " " 


30 " 


. . . 24 " 


1 Thebet . 


. . . 5 " " 


1 Thebet . 


. . . 25 " " 


28 « . 


. . 1 Jan., 1870. 


8 « 


. . . 1 Jan., 1871. 


29 " 


...2 s ' " 


29 « 


. .... 22- " " 


1 Sebat . . 


. . . 3 " " 


1 Sebat . 


. ., . 23; " " 


30 « 


. . . 1 Feb., " 


10 " 


. . . 1 Feb., " 


1 Adar . . 


. . . 2 " " 


30 « 


... 21 " " 


28 " 


. . . 1 March, " 


1 Adar . . 


. . . 22 " " 


30 " 


. . . 3 " « 


8 " . . 


... 1 March, " 


1 Yeadar . 


. . . 4 " « 


29 " 


, . . 22 " « 


29 " 


. . . 1 April, " 


1 Xisan. . 


. . . 23 " " 


1 Nisan . 


. . . 2 " " 


10 " . . 


... 1 April, « 


30 " 


. . . 1 May, « 


30 " . . 


. . . 21 ' " ' 


1 Ijar . . 


. . . 2 " 


1 Ijar . . 


... 22 " « 


29 " 


. . . 30 " " 


10 " 


... 1 May, « 


1 Sivan . . 


. . . 31 " " 


29 " 


... . 20 " 


2 « . . 


... 1 June, " 


1 Sivan . 


... 21 " " 


30 " . . 


. . . 29 " 


12 « 


... 1 June, " 


1 Thamuiu 


s . . 30 " 


30 « 


... 19 " 


2 " 


. . 1 July, « 


1 Tharnuiu 


z . . 20 " « 


29 


. . 28 " " 


12 


. . 1 July, « 


1 Ab . . . 


. . . 29 " 


29 " 


. . 18 « « 


4 « ... 


. . . 1 Aug., « 


1 Ab ... 


... 19 " « 


30 " ... 


. . . 27 " " 


14 " . . . 


... 1 Aug., « 


1 Elul . . 


. . . 28 " " 


30 " ... 


... 17 " 


5 " 


. . . 1 Sept., « 


1 Elul . . 


... IS " 


29 " 


. . . 25 " " 


15 " 


... 1 Sept., " 






29 " 


... 15 " « 



282 



HEBREW CALENDAR. 



L-.M.-. 


A.-.D.-. 


TiSRl. 


Marches- 
vax. 


Chisleu. 


Thebet. 


A.-.D.-. 


Sebat. 


5025 


1864 


Oct. 


1 


Oct. 31 


Nov. 30 


Dec. 30 


1865 


Jan. 28 


5626 


1S65 


Sept. 


21 


" 21 


" 19 


" 19 


1866 


" 17 


5627 


1866 






10 


" 10 


9 


9 


1867 


" 7 


5G2S 


1S67 




< 


30 


« 30 


" 28 


" 27 


1868 


« 25 


5629 


186S 




' 


17 


" 17 


" 15 


" 15 


1869 


" 13 


5630 


1869 




'- 


6 


6 


5 


5 


1870 


3 


5031 


1870 




' 


26 


« 26 


" 25 


" 25 


1871 


" 23 


5632 


1871 




< 


16 


" 16 


" 14 


« 13 


1872 


" 11 


5633 


1872 


Oct, 


3 


Nov. 2 


Dec. 1 


" 31 


1873 


" 29 


5634 


1873 


Sept. 


22 


Oct. 22 


Nov. 21 


" 21 


1874 


" 19 


5635 


1874 




' 


12 


" 12 


« 10 


9 


1875 


7 


5636 


1875 




' 


30 


" 30 


" 29 


'• 29 


1876 


" 27 


5637 


1S76 






19 


" 19 


" 17 


'• 17 


1877 


" 15 


5638 


1S77 




< 


8 


8 


7 


" 7 


1878 


5 


5639 


1878 




' 


28 


« 28 


« 27 


" 27 


1879 


" 25 


5640 


1S79 




' 


18 


" 18 


" 16 


" 16 


1SS0 


" 14 


5641 


1880 




< 


6 


6 


4 


3 


1881 


1 


5642 


1S81 




' 


21 


<; 04 


« 23 


" 23 


1SS2 


" 21 


5643 


1882 




« 


U 


" 14 


" 12 


" 11 


1883 


9 


5644 


1883 


Oct. 


2 


Nov. 1 


" 30 


" 30 


1884 


" 28 


5645 


1884 


Sept. 


20 


Oct. 20 


" 19 


" 19 


1885 


" 17 


5646 


18S5 


" 


10 


" 10 


9 


" 9 


1886 


7 


5647 


1SS6 


" 


30 


" 30 


" 28 


" 28 


1887 


" 26 


5648 


1887 




19 


" 19 


" 17 


" 16 


1888 


" 14 


5649 


1SS8 


» 


6 


6 


5 


" 5 


1889 


3 


5050 


1889 


« 


26 


« 26 


'• 24 


" 24 


1S90 


•• 22 


5651 


1890 


" 


15 


« 15 


" 13 


" 12 


1S91 


'• 10 


5652 


1891 


Oct. 


3 


Nov. 2 


Dec, 2 


Jan. 1 


1892 


'• 30 


5653 


1892 


Sept 


22 


Oct, 22 


Nov. 20 


Dec. 20 


1893 


" 18 


5654 


1893 


" 


11 




1 11 


" 10 


•• 10 


1894 


8 


5655 


1894 


Oct. 


1 




' 31 


" 29 


" 28 


1895 


'• 26 


5656 


1895 


Sept 


19 




' 19 


" 18 


" IS 


1896 


" 16 


5057 


1896 


" 


8 




S 


6 


6 


1897 


4 


5658 


1897 


" 


27 




« 27 


" 26 


" 26 


1898 


'• 24 


5659 


1898 


" 


17 




• 17 


" 15 


" 14 


1899 


'• 12 


5660 


1899 






5 




5 


3 




1900 


1 



HEBREW CALENDAR. 283 


Adar. J Veadar. 


NlSAH. 


Ijar. 


SlVAN. 


Tham- 

MUZ. 


Ab. 


Eltjl. 


Feb. 27 




Mch. 2S 


April 27 


May 26 


Juno 25 


July 24 


Aug. 23 


« 16 




" 17 


" 16 


" 15 


" 14 


" 13 


" 12 


6 Mch. 


8 


April 6 


May 6 


June 4 


July 4 


Aug. 2 


Sept. 1 


" 24 






Mch. 24 


April 23 


May 22 


June 21 


July 20 


Aug. 19 


" 12 






" 13 


< : 12 


" 11 


" 10 


9 


8 


" 2 


Mch. 


4 


April 2 


May 2 


" 31 


" 30 


" 29 


" 28 


" 22 






Mch. 23 


April 22 


" 21 


" 20 


" 19 


" IS 


" 10 


Mch. 


11 


April 9 


May 9 


June 7 


July 7 


Aug. 5 


Sept. 4 


" 28 






Mch. 29 


April 28 


May 27 


June 26 


July 25 


Aug. 24 


" IS 






" 19 


" IS 


<: 17 


" 16 


" 15 


" 14 


6 


Mch. 


8 


April 6 


May 6 


June 4 


July 4 


Aug. 2 


Sept. 1 


" 26 






Mch. 26 ! April 25 


May 24 


June 23 


July 22 


Aug. 21 


" 14 






" 15 


" 14 


" 13 


" 12 


" 11 


" 10 


4 


Mch. 


6 


April 4 


May 4 


June 2 


July 2 


'• 31 


" 30 


" 24 






Mch. 25 


April 24 


May 23 


June 22 


« 21 


" 20 


" 13 






" 13 


" 12 


■' 11 


" 10 


9 


8 


Jan. 31 


Mch. 


2 


" 31 


" 30 


« 29 


" 28 


" 27 


" 26 


Feb. 20 






" 21 


« 20 


" 19 


" 18 


" 17 


" 16 


8 


Mch. 


10 


April 8 


May S 


June 6 


July 6 


Aug. 4 


Sept. 3 


" 27 






Mch. 27 


April 26 


May 25 


June 24 


July 23 


Aug. 22 


" 16 






" 17 


" 16 


" 15 


" 14 


" 13 


" 12 


« 6 


Mch. 


8 


April 6 


May 6 


June 4 


July 4 


Aug. 2 


Sept. 1 


" 25 






Mch. 26 


April 25 


May 24 


June 23 


July 22 


Aug. 21 


" 13 






" 13 


" 12 


" 11 


" 10 


9 


8 


" 2 


Mch. 


4 


April 2 


May 2 


" 31 


" 30 


" 29 


" 28 


" 21 






Mch. 22 


April 21 


" 20 


" 19 


" 18 


" 17 


9 


Mch. 


11 


April 9 


May 9 


June 7 


July 7 


Aug. 5 


Sept. 4 


" 29 






Mch. 29 


April 28 


May 27 


June 26 


July 25 


Aug. 24 


" 17 






" IS 


" 17 


" 16 


" 15 


" 14 


" 13 


7 


Mch. 


9 


April 7 


May 7 


June 5 


July 5 


Aug. 3 


Sept. 2 


" 25 






Mch. 26 


April 25 


May 24 


June 23 


July 22 


Aug. 21 


" 15 






" 15 


" 14 


" 13 


" 12 


" 11 


<: 10 


3 


Mch. 


5 


April 3 


May 3 


Juno 1 


July 1 


" 30 


" 29 


" 23 






Mch. 24 


April 23 


May 22 


June 21 


" 20 


" 19 


" 11 






" 12 


" 11 


" 10 


9 


8 


cc 7 


Jan. 31 


Mch. 




" 31 


" 30 


" 29 


" 2S 




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APPENDIX. 



CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS 

ADOPTED A.D. 1865. 

Amend Article I. by striking out the following words at the 
end of the first sentence : " except during an election of a mem- 
ber to fill a vacancy therein," and add "as hereinafter set 
forth." Also strike out the word "Missouri," and insert the 
word "Wisconsin" in its stead. Also add to said Article the 
following, namely : " The Supreme Council shall be in executive 
session when electing members and performing such other duties 
as they may choose to perform in executive session." 

The grade of Sovereign Grand Inspector-General shall be 
divided into three classes, namely : — 

1. Emeritus Members of the Supreme Council. This class 
shall embrace all who, having been active members, have ceased 
to be such. They shall have the full rank and powers belong- 
ing to active membership, including the right to be present in 
Supreme Council, vote, and aid by their counsel and advice, 
even while in executive session, and only excejDting from the 
powers of those who shall hereafter become active members, 
and subsequently Emeritus members, right to vote in Supreme 
Council. The Supreme Council may, by unanimous vote, also 
elevate to this grade such Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General, 
33°, within and without the Jurisdiction, as shall have rendered 
distinguished services to the Rite ; but such an election shall 
not entitle them to a vote. 

2. Active Members, as aforesaid. 

3. All others shall be called Honorary Members. They shall 
be entitled to seats in the Supreme Council when not in execu- 
tive session, and shall be permitted to consult and deliberate 
upon matters appertaining to the general interests of the Rite. 

Those who before the adoption of this amendment were hon- 

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orary members shall lose none of the rights they would have if 
this amendment had not been adopted, and shall be permitted 
to be in executive session except in elections of active members. 

It is understood, however, that all hereafter elected accept 
the high honor, as a tribute to their worth, and upon the un- 
derstanding and condition that they shall not exercise the other 
powers and prerogatives otherwise belonging to the grade or 
degree, and that their powers and privileges shall be subject to 
such revision and alteration as the Supreme Council may from 
time to time adjudge and determine. 

Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General shall rank as follows : — 

1st. M.\ P.-. Sov.\ Grand Commander; P.\ Lieut.-. Grand 
Commander, and other Officers and Deputies of the Supreme 
Council. 

2d. Emeritus members, according to the highest office they 
have held in the Supreme Council. 

3d. Active members of the Supreme Council. 

4th. Present Honorary members. 

5th. Future Honorary members. 

Members of the above classes shall rank, where not otherwise 
provided for, according to the date of their degrees. 

Amend Article IV. by striking out all after the word "elec- 
tion" in the third line, and inserting in the place thereof as 
follows, namely: "from among the Inspectors-General, 83°, 
Emeritus or Honorary." 

Amend Article V. by striking out the words "more than" 
and "vacated," and inserting the word "rescind" in the place 
of the word "vacated." 

Amend Article IX., relative to the duties of the Secretary- 
General, by inserting after the word "Jurisdiction," and before 
the last sentence, as follows : " He shall receive all moneys 
paid into the Supreme Council ; keep a just and accurate ac- 
count of the same, specifying from whom and on what account 
received, and shall pay them over to the Treasurer-General, 
taking his receipt therefor." 

Amend Article XIII. by striking out all before _the word 
" No," in the first line. 



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